I am not just talkingh of the tory support of the war though that is bad.

The previous war against Yugoslavia was, any any standard whatsoever, more clearly & disgracefully criminal.It was fought against a democratic state not a dictatorship. It was fought against a state which had no record of foreign adventure, indeed the exact reverse. It was a state whose “unity & territorial integrity” we had & indeed still have specifically undertaken to uphold (wording of the Helsinki treaty). While it was possible to beleive Iraq might have had some WMDs somewhere Parliament knew that the only genocide in Kosovo was being carried out by the NATO armed & organised KLA. That war was targeted overwhelmingly against civilians (80% of killings). When NATO occupied Kosovo we deliberately broke the occupation agreement, to disarm the KLA & run a non-racist administration, by enrolling the KLA as our police & giving them authority to engage in genocide. We authorised massacres such as the 210 killed outside our main base in Dragocan. We authorised the ethnic cleansing of 350,000. We authorised the kidnap, rape & sale abroad of schoolgirls. Ultimately we authorised the police kidnap of at least 1300 Yugoslavs & their dissection, while still alive, to provide organs for our hospitals. By comparison Abu Graib barely counts as naughty.

Blair is indeed a war crimional & should face ultimate punishment but almost the entire British & NATO political leadership is also guilty of crimes against humanity exceeeding in horror, though not in numbers, those of Mr Hitler. It is hypocritical to single him out for what is clearly a much lesser crime.

I for one would be happy to contribute to a fighting fund.

And why he asks “first-class travel must be paid for during booking for the Blair family, its security detail and stylists” to be paid by those booking him to speak? http://www.tonyblairoffice.org.uk/

Boudicca & LFAT. I agree that Dr Kelly’s death was extremely suspicious, but even if he did commit suicide (very unlikely for him to do so in the manner alleged) that should never disguise the fact that he was hung out to dry by Blair & Campbell in an attempt to cover their own arses, (and possibly that of John Scarlett, former Cabinet Office Chief and the chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, who then became head of SIS).

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’d like to see that investigated again once Labour are out of power.

‘A bored and resentful Bush greeted the prime minister with good-natured disdain – ‘Yo, Blair!’ – and treated him like a put-upon valet, a part Blair played very convincingly, bowing and scraping as he obsequiously offered to help the Americans in the Middle East, in any way they might want: ‘I don’t know what you guys have talked about, but, as I say, I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is….’ When Bush reminded him that Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, was going there, Blair added in still more revealing words, ‘Well….it’s only if, I mean….you know. If she’s got a…..or if she needs the ground prepared, as it were…..Because obviously if she goes out, she’s got to succeed, as it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.’

‘….as Maureen Dowd of the New York Times put it with painfully accurate wit, the Prime Minister ‘was hovering and wheedling like an abused wife’. (Yo, Blair! Geoffrey Wheatcroft, 2006)

Pathetic!

@ LFAT
Bill, Blair behaved like Bush’s poodle but without him Bush would have been unable to go to war without risking a much more widespread conflict.

The correct metaphor is that of a condom.

Blair was a British prophylactic that Bush wore in order to f*** the UN and International Law like the dirty w**** that it is.