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Blair was wrong. He still is. But let’s not fetishise the UN | Polly Toynbee

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January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in UK

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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