Abominable Blair

King Blair of Kut al Amara made a last farewell visit to Iraq, the country he helped to devastate to unimaginable proportions. After helping murder 700,000 innocent Iraqis, he had the temerity to make a last visit to Baghdad's Green Zone. When explosions rocked the last hide-out of the occupiers of the land of Babylon, he added insult to injury, saying: “there was progress. The question is, what are we going to do in the face of these attacks? The answer is, we don't give in to them.” (CNN: Blair says goodbye to Baghdad as daily blasts go off)

Yes, there is progress. The heroic resistance of the Iraqi people against the occupation is indeed making progress. As for the progress Blair is talking about, it can be compared to the progress Adolf Hitler, Hideki Toyo, Bennito Mussolini and other aggressors occasionally made. In the end, they were defeated, humiliated and crushed to dust. The same will happen to Bush, Blair and their puppet Iraqi government. “Not giving in”, will not save their skin. The rightful place of Bush and Blair is under the delete key. The peoples of the world are at the keyboard, not war criminals like Bush and Blair. It is the Iraqi people which will never “give in” to the aggression of American and British imperialism.

Asked how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said: “Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.” In an interview with BBC Radio Carter continued: “One of the defenses of the Bush administration, in the American public and on a worldwide basis – and it's not been successful in my opinion – has been that, OK, we must be more correct in our actions than the world thinks because Great Britain is backing us. And so I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened the effort, and has made opposition less effective and has prolonged the war and increased the tragedy that has resulted.” (CNN: Carter: Blair-Bush ties 'tragic')

Blair expressed no regrets for his steadfast support of Bush's policy on Iraq. He is an unrepentant war criminal deserving the harshest punishment an international tribunal could impose. Let's repeat it for added emphasis: Blair = Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient. That's a nice summary of Blair's legacy, in the deepest, darkest, dirtiest place of the dustbin of history.