Tony Blair

[DeMascus]

I Saw a Speech by Prof Roy Bridges from Abdn Uni on the Nuremberg trials

 

There was some interesting details about the prosecutors involved in the trials. A few of the the more pragmatic individuals perceived the trials as not a means of securing the future against the possibility of this happening again, but as an extension of the war - a means of kicking the Germans for losing. You can see this in the defenses used, basically they could be charged for anything that the Allied forces could not be proven to have engaged in. So the premise of the subsequent conventions can be seen as unstable.

 

It is a real shame because these pieces of international law are moving in the right directions. It should be applied to everyone, not just the losers!

 

Blair may or may not see this, but that doesn't matter, he is being pragmatic, the current Status Quo will treat him well for this and he will suckle well into old age.

 

As well as Tony the whole Parliament should be held to account for any crimes. I'd like to be an optimist but I don't think this will happen in my lifetime, I also think there will be a lot more conflict before this changes.

[DeMascus]

"When seeking the approval of the Commons for the war, Blair pledged that after Iraq was disarmed, he and his American friends would seek a solution to the Palestine problem. He has utterly failed to deliver on this promise."

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2078846,00.html

[KOYAANISQATSI]

Did you really think for a second that he was serious on delivery of solutions. You must have him confused, as they say, with someone who gives a turd.

[in_vacanza]

You could almost believe the lyrics to this song were written for Blair. Sadly it could also have been written for his successor.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw&mode=related&search=

[KOYAANISQATSI]

uh oh

http://tonyblairoffice.org/2007/12/interfaith.html

 

Jesus wept.