Blair was wrong. He still is. But let’s not fetishise the UN | Polly Toynbee
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Yesterday offered a raw reminder of the defining Labour foreign policy error – it should not be reduced to legal detail”Blair lied, thousands died,” read the placards. The truth is, he always said what he believed, over and over again, in parliament, in press conferences and to anyone who asked. “It’s not about a lie, a deceit or a conspiracy or a deception,” he says – though we shall never know how much he deceived himself. Conviction on stilts remains – in Iraq things did get better. His emotional peroration counted the babies saved, regretted nothing lost.”I did it because I thought… Read More
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