All of Britain is talking about the memoirs of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, which were entitled ‘A Journey'. However, another book published at the same time also deserves notice: Dr. Brian Jones is a scientist who worked for the scientific and technical directorate of the Defense Intelligence Staff and was responsible for intelligence on WMDS. He wrote a book about his experience with the British government on the eve of the war, entitled “Failing Intelligence: The True Story of How We Were Fooled into Going to War in Iraq”. This book is the latest in the series of publications about the deliberate lies, falsification and suppression of inconvenient information by the government, to justify the war on Iraq. I do not think we need another book to provide conclusive evidence of a conspiracy by George W. Bush and Tony Blair to wage an unjustified war that has killed more than a million Iraqis, spawned an ongoing terrorism, and left Iraq a devastated country with a failed political system and much worse than what it used to be under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, as impossible as that may sound. Dr. Jones tells how he saw the evidence being fabricated, how the government asked him to draft a report that proves Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and how he rejected this, and how the government propped up the claim that Saddam Hussein can launch his weapons in 45 minutes, threatening the Middle East and the entire world. Meanwhile, the book ‘A Journey' is tantamount to a defense plea on behalf of Tony Blair. In it, Blair seems like someone who takes pride in sin, as he says that if the clocks are to turn back, he would still support a war against Saddam Hussein even if he did not have weapons of mass destruction, and had no ties to al-Qaeda, because his regime is a threat to the region. In an interview with the BBC to promote his memoirs, Tony Blair said that he even supports a war against Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, because such weapons would be a threat to the region and the world, and would push the Arab countries to seek nuclear weapons as well. So apparently, Blair wants only Israel to have these weapons, without admitting that this criminal fascistic state possesses a nuclear arsenal, as it occupies, murders, and destroys. Blair also had the audacity to accuse Iran of funding the insurgents who killed British soldiers in Iraq, although it is very clear that these soldiers would not have been killed had Blair not sent them to Iraq and Afghanistan…once again on premises that had been deliberately fabricated., Dr. Rosemary Hollis, a Middle East expert at City University in London (whom I know well and respect), responded to Blair by saying that the war games that have been done by the Americans show that the results of a military attack against Iran and the killing of civilians would be much more dangerous than Iran having a nuclear weapon. Tony Blair is a war criminal who, along with George W. Bush and the entire war cabal, must end up before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. I am not alone in considering Blair a war criminal. Some of the British press which reviewed his memoirs echoed this accusation. The renowned British journalist John Pilger went a step further, and accused Blair of responsibility for the terrorist attack that struck London on 7/7/2005 and killed dozens of people, because these took place as a reaction to his government's crimes. The Stop the War Coalition, which includes among its members some of the most prominent figures of politics and intellect in Britain, has been calling for the prosecution of Blair as a war criminal for years. The Irish anti-war movement also echoed this demand, and announced it will open a book of condolences for the victims of Blair's wars. The families of many British soldiers killed in these wars had also called for Blair to be tried as a war criminal. When he said he wept for the victims of the war, he was told immediately that these were crocodile tears. Tony Blair is a political opportunist who, despite the war crimes, continues to raise money. His opponents have estimated his fortune since leaving office three years ago at about 40 million pounds. When he donated his fees for his memoirs, or about 4.6 million pounds, to the injured soldiers, he was told immediately that money will not wash his hands from the blood of the victims. By virtue of his opportunism as well, he included a special preface in the American edition of his memoirs, which I found to be a poem praising America, its policies and its people, added to his claim in his memoirs that George W. Bush whom the whole world judged to be stupid, ignorant, and cannot speak his own English language, is intelligent, brave and a genius. Now, there is a new charge added to Blair's black record, which is that he sought to release Abdul-Baset al-Megrahi, the man that was convicted for his role in the Lockerbie terrorist bombing, so that British Petroleum (BP) would get five billion pound-worth of contracts in Libya (he had visited Libya in 2007 when the contracts were signed). Will the war criminals escape prosecution? Most probably, because the victims, the Arabs and the Muslims, have become complacent and an easy prey. [email protected]
