Tony Blair "depressed" in aftermath of Iraq War

don't know much about the 'inner Blair'...but i guess if i was responsible for killing so many innocent people...british military, iraqi civilians, for absolutely nothing!...i would feel depressed.

What does "renege" mean?

"depressed"? sorry, that is not a legal defense. he should stand in the dock at the hague with cheney and bush.

i wish i could feel bad but he made the deal. lets see how he makes this right.

Aw, poor, poor Tony Blair! Now he'll have to live out his days in depressing luxury while innocent people continue to die...maybe he should just shoot himself.

That is a tough price to pay for some one else's ( cheny/ bush) greed. In the end they all made $ off the deal.

pwned

am i supposed to feel sorry for this asshole?

Great post Jeff!

When you are the leader of one of the richest nations on earth (UK), it is your sworn duty to verify any "what he thought was incontrovertible evidence Iraq had WMD's" before committing to send your country to ward. if you send your country to war and then say "no fair, I didn't know," you have failed your country. it was his sworn duty to find out to seek info form more than one source (especially when it's the US military machine). it was his duty.
had any nation in the muslim world used such validation for invading a sovereign country they would be flattened by your bombs.
Tony Blair is a politician. since the war he has become a great believer in religion... this is what he caught from the US government/ Bush, not war fever.

Comments here depict exactly what I speak of time and time again. Its so easy to criticize when you haven't put yourself in their shoes. Tony Blair had George Tenent Director of the CIA, Condy Rice NSA Director both providing to him what he thought was incontrovertible evidence Iraq had WMD's. Colin Powell went in front of the U.N. with the same evidence. He had George Bush and Dick Cheney pressuring him for his support backed by the likes of Paul Wolowitz and Richard Pearl (the warmongers) all of these people put tremendous pressure on Tony Blair. Of course he could have made a different decision but for one moment put yourself in his shoes. Its so easy to judge in hindsight.

I wonder if we'll ever learn about George Bush's manic depression, and how Dick Cheney had to take the wheel for ol Bushey for awhile. Just til things cooled off. That might explain a lot.

I like Tony Blair. I hate the fact he inexplicably bought into the previous administration's marketing campaign. His denial over the morality of the war clearly has torn him up on the inside. I think his faith came into play on his decision to help in the Iraq invasion, and as a result, he threw in with the wrong side.

I am still not ready to write him off as an Iraq war villain, but I understand the viewpoint of those that do.

A politician as well to the core. When seeing that his collaboration blew up in his face, he tries to use this as damage control. It is too little too late. He already sold his soul. His hands are no less bloody than Bush's. It is actually unbelievable. He is party to thousands of murders and the spilling of so much blood, and yet, because he comes out and looks contrite he is forgiven? Where was this contriteness when it was needed? HE HAD A CHOICE.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article387374.ece

Read this and then say he was "mislead."

Boo-Hoo, Poor Tony B-liar!
For someone whose hands are drenched in blood he seems pretty unrepentant nowadays. What with his cushy advisory role for banks and half a million per speech he is racking in the cash, meanwhile the people of Iraq are still mourning for loved ones and trying to rebuild their lives in the mess the Tony and W have left behind for them.
Just look how he acted at the Chilcott Inquiry, adamant that what he did was right. He's nothing but a self serving sycophant and I hope to see him in the Hauge one day being tried for war crimes.

he didn't "find out he was misled". he went willingly. Britain has it's own long and embarrassing history in Iraq going back much further than George (Bush) the first. are all americans really as stupid as we think they are? I'd hoped not. but as the british media (including such media dears as writer/ director Peter Morgan, and dramatist Caryl churchill) rewrites history (do you also believe Henry VIII was an underwear model?) we are learning that the war made Tony Blair sad. as if the PM of Britain was a wide eyed innocent. do they not teach the history of British colonialism in American schools? the opium wars were particularly horrific and dehumanizing.
I make no excuses for GWB, he was a menace. but to say Blair "'s so cool. And still cool now" reduces the role of government to another reality show. they BOTH need to be tried as war criminals.
and yanks, the opposite of a republican is NOT a democrat-- they are two sides of one coin.

As should anyone with a single ounce of common sense. the only reason the US is there is because of ex dictator Bushes LIES.

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It really sucks when a person finds out they were so decieved as Tony Blair was by George Bush, CIA director Tenent, Cheney and Rumsfeld along with Richard Pearl and Paul Wolfowitz in bringing Britian along in the war in Iraq. Tony Blair knew not long after the war started he had been lied to and decieved in order to gain his support. Even Colin Powell fell for the crap and stood in front of the world at the UN and declared Iraq in violation of UN charters, which in the end were found to be false, or did they just find the WMD's.

Yeah and now England is in the same shoes as we. Gordon Brown and Obama are as bad or worse than Bush and Blair. It just doesn't get any better. It will take hundreds of millions of English and British ganging up and demanding that the entire governments be removed and refilled with honorable and ethical personell.

I don't care that he expressed dispair. Too little, too late! Tony Blair, George W., Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld should be held accountable! Deep dispair is not enough to deter future leaders from making such bad choices, at the expense of others.

Their actions were so shameful, our government is 'too ashamed' for their crimes to be stated 'out loud', under oath and we are forced to move along, with no accountability.

Dick Cheney is free to go on American television and admit to 'war crimes', because he knows, his actions make us all look bad and we will 'move along', instead of admitting, we did not stop them. We let them do bad things in 'our name'. They approved torture in 'our name'. They made us 'guilty by association'. Sad, sad, sad!

Thank you for letting us know this. I've always felt that Blair wasn't totally on board with this and would see his mistake. What a shame, he's so cool. And still cool now that I know for sure that he wasn't with us on the war. At least he has a soul.

To bad the listen to Bush.

"On one occasion Brown went round to No. 10 to get an answer. One of Blair's inner circle who witnessed this says:

"Gordon was just losing it. He was behaving like a belligerent teenager. Just standing in the office shouting: 'When are you going to fucking go?"

at least, that is more than we have heard from bush/cheney. his big mistake was getting into bed with bush.