British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair’s ‘sycophancy’

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6955325.ece

British soldiers were sent to their deaths in Iraq because of Tony Blair’s “sycophancy” towards Washington and the failure of the governing class to speak the truth, a former prosecutions chief says today.

The Chilcot Inquiry will be held in contempt if it does a “whitewash” by omitting to disclose details of a “foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions”, Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, Director of Public Prosecutions until last year, says in an article for The Times.

In perhaps the most serious charges levelled by a former public servant against an ex-Prime Minister, Sir Ken says Mr Blair engaged in an “alarming subterfuge” with George Bush, and then misled and cajoled the British people into a war they did not want.

Mr Blair’s fundamental flaw was his sycophancy towards those in power, he says. “Perhaps this seems odd in a man who drank so much of that mind-altering brew at home. But Washington turned his head and he couldn’t resist the stage or the glamour that it gave him.”

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1. Excellent summary of Blair's love affair with Bush.

I hope there are some consequences possible in Britain. Here, war criminals are given medals and promotions and revered as long as they live. But seeing Tony get a comeuppance might at least make a few of our war criminals nervous. Not that they have anything to worry about with Nancy and Obama calling the shots, but at least they might get an uneasy feeling that the people might get some ideas.