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Iraq: 20 Years On | Tony Blair on Trial

Intelligence Squared

Blair's Decade Did Make a Difference but It Was the Wrong Difference

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Blair told the British people that Iraq's WMDs posed a fatal threat forbidden by the UN but his real intention was regime change. Whitehall's traditional machinery of government would have stopped that, Shikiri says. Blairism was not an ideology nor a set of principles - he was modernization without meaning. In the name of Britain, he fought wars to remove dictators and now profits from serving dictators. The tragedy is obliged on Britain for the rest of our lives.

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