Tony Blair Responds To The Iraq Inquiry In Full
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Tony Blair's lengthy and emotional response to Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the Iraq War: "The intelligence assessments made at the time of going to war turned out to be wrong, the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, protracted and bloody than ...
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Why isnt George W Bush answering the same questions?
Because Tony Blair did not have to join America in their fight in Iraq. The united states felt that they were already at war due to 9/11. Tony Blair wanted to involve himself and his country in to a war which had nothing do with him. Which costs the lives of our British troops which then created terrorist attacks in our UK home land.
@Ibbs 69 true
Americans are way more pro-war than British are
Because the UK has checks and balances on it's head unlike the USA with it's arms industry,war thirst and we can do anything we fancy etc.
Britain's only problem is being USAs lapdog!
Because Britain has higher standards than America, how we have fell to their level is beyond me
one million+ iraqi are also human, dont just talk about 179 british.
Well said
he mentions Iraqis, both civilians and combatants, at the very onset of the speech. As British PM he was chiefly responsible for the welfare of British servicemen and women, so it is to be expected he would focus mostly on that aspect.
He’s a tool
@@simonzonenblick395 He is responsible for their deaths, not their welfare.
@@simonzonenblick395 a mass murderer of 1 million iraqi deliberately
This man is pure evil.
I don't remember the Iraqis knocking down the WTC...
joseph Spot on
Robo Redneck god would’ve destroyed the west if they attacked Saudi Arabia.
Robo Redneck they caused the WTC attack to make it seem like the east was the enemy. They invaded an innocent country declared their leaders as dictators all for their oil. They started extreme groups played both sides funded them and left the destruction after they got their petrol. There will be a war soon and the western governments and extremist groups will all be destroyed in a matter of 150 years. This was all prophesied in all scripture of the abrahamic religions.
I swear ooooo
@@YousifAziz No, it was Mossad. The Dancing Israeli's, 5 of them were caught and released soon after it happened.
Blair: Balanced, nuanced perspective.
Comments section: foaming-at-the-mouth idiocy.
Tell me about it
@Ardent Fan and if they didnt intervene they would have the blood of millions dying because of Saddam's wars or genocides on their hands.
Exactly. Just unbelievable. The billionaire press, Tory tabloids etc. have absolutely wrecked the state of political discourse in this country, and need to be reined in hard.
@@jackdutfield6096 Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by sending them against iranian trenches or bombing them, Blair and his ilk killed hundred of thousands of Iraqis by sending them against eachother and bombing them, I fail to see the difference, especially considering Blair and his friends did more damage in 3 years of occupation than Saddam had done in nearly 30 years of rule...
@@jackdutfield6096 Saddam's started two wars, Blair also started two, I also fail to see the difference.
Blair should be on trial for war crimes.
"we promised a free and secure Iraq and we delivered on that, Iraq is today a free and secure place" WTF??? This man is pathological!!!!
He sounds like Crooked Hillary Clinton. No matter what, just keep on lying. I am hearing a familiar phrase in all of these crooked politicians, "At the time." Which is bullsh*t. What about foresight? What about history? What about the use of our intelligence forces? I am getting sick and tired of these crooked politicians.
Court Reporter the intelligence forces are the main reason the whole thing went bad. Both country’s intelligence agencies were at fault for most of the errors that Bush and Blair are now roasted for and I can almost guarantee they both blame the whole screw up on them. Also another thing that’s almost never mentioned is the fact the whole Iraq war had been brewing long before 9/11 (even before 98 when he kicked out the UN overseers) and the Afghanistan war. The decision was made easier by 9/11 and the new terrorist threat bc Saddam was a psychopath and hated both the US & UK and was very likely to give/sell WMDs to those terrorists to get revenge for Desert Storm and all the interference and sanctions we gave him.
The one gripe the UK citizens do have that I agree with is how under equipped the UK forces were and how it made their life much more difficult than it needed to be over there. They had nowhere near the resources the US forces had even down to the kit they wore I was shocked at how much more we had than them. There were even countries that had a fraction of their number that were better equipped (Danes come to mind). Now that I agree is completely inexcusable.
It’s got a democratic government which is better than Saddam. Not sure if that was worth a whole war tho… and like half a million people dying…
He’s made a fortune on the speakers circuit....while young men are lying in graves with families struggling to get bye...crocodile tears
He made £320 million just of the war in his back pocket that’s just a back hanger
Very interesting comments many politicians have no hesitation in sending other parents sons to be killed as there are many fatalities in war. But protect and make sure there sons dont go to war. But pursue lucrative business careers that's why for me the money euan his son who went to America and it benefited him immensely look at the educational establishment he went to in America.
I can't listen, he turns my stomach
He’s fake, invented, not real.
He says his job was to protect Britain yet I still do not understand 15 years on how this war has done anything of the sort, if that's what he's suggesting
Anyway Gadaffi was good to his people...
I honestly don't think that is what he has suggested as such; rather, he has always said that the intelligence reports he received at the time led him to believe there was at least a very good chance that Saddam posed an existential threat to the UK, due to his apparent weapons capabilities and links with Al Qaida (both of which we now know to have been exaggerated or non-existent) and that to have not responded to this perceived threat would have been a dereliction of duty. One may argue about the manner of the response, but that has always been my understanding of his defence.
@@simonzonenblick395 Saddam posed no threat to the UK or US and Blair and Bush both knew that, the war was about Bush'd vendetta with Saddam
@@hueyfreeman1983
Looks like that’s the reality of it.
@@simonzonenblick395 Everybody competent knew Saddam wasn't housing Al Qaeda, he was way too secular for their taste and was hated by Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabis in general, he was after Iran and Israel probably the regime Al Qaeda disliked the most in the Middle East...
Tell us the truth, Blair - what happened to Dr Kelly?
War criminal should be jailed
Crocodile tears, bought and paid for political class.
yep
Saddam was a monster, our Tony is a hero
Tony is an egoistic war-thirst monster who thought he was a hero, and turned out to be just a door-watching dog of GW Bush. He definitely go to hello, and Hades will give him a new ID in hell "Idiot-Hero-Dog".
i agree tony is a hero if tony was still in power he would have sorted isis out
isis dont exist
I don't know any person in my life I've met who likes Blair . I hate him
+TheMattd546 I hate him
He won 9 and a half million votes in 2005 after it was discovered that Iraq did not have WMD capability, so there were at least 9 million people post-Iraq who supported him
@@HazeyEd1ts 9.5 million dumb brits
This demon is a war criminal, and has not paid for his crimes.
He behaving like a actor.. he should be in Hollywood or if he learn dance then he can join Bollywood too.. such a liar he is.
Approaching 20 years on and he is still lying.. this man knows no shame. He will be remembered for this and this alone. I'm embarrassed I voted Labour in 97 and have not voted since.
He just got a knighthood wtf
@@aliencyborg3660 disgusting to think the queen of peedos is rewarding him.
Blair witch project
He does understand the majority of the British people now disagree with him. Even the ones which trusted him at the time.
I'm sorry? He doesn't know most people disagree with him? He quite literally says multiple times in this video alone he knew the country didn't support the removal of Saddam Hussein.
@@HazeyEd1ts Makes him even worse
@@jackmellor5536 How? He thought he was taking the right action and certainly prevented Iraq from developing WMD and toppled a fascist megalomaniac who had oversaw multiple genocides and violations of international law.
There was an intelligence failure, Iraq did not have WMD, but the same reports which conclude Iraq had no WMD also conclude that Iraq retained the scientists, the labs and the equipment to build WMD, and that it was Saddam Hussein's intention to return to a WMD program once sanctions were eroded, which he was succeeding at.
It is also interesting that people either forget or ignore the fact that from 2001-2003 Iraq had paid North Korea $10 million to obtain a full production line to manufacture, under an Iraqi flag, the North Korean missile systems, which would be capable of hitting American allies and bases around the region. No one disputes this.
Blair states one of the reasons for the invasion was to free the iraqi people from bondage from Saddam Hussein.
How long had Saddam been in power and when did the bondage take place and why the delay if his words hold true.?.
The fact of the matter is that it was cinve ient for Blair and Bush to take us to war even though there were no words.
There are other dictators in this world so does that mean they should also have been taken out and if not why not.
Criminal
He's a cold blooded liar
That he is
idiot
He's a damnable devil
"I made the right decision.......for my bank account. JP Morgan bank weren't gonna give me and Bush money if we didn't wage war"
War Criminal
War criminal
What crime did he commit?
Tony Blair.. when the evil speaks
LOL saying that Saddam was a threat to peace.. hahahahahahahahahaha
What's funny about that?
9/11 wasn't done with WMD..
He never said it was. He said there was a very real risk of rouge states colaborating with terrorists on WMD in a post-9/11 world. He was completely right.
A warlord he should bee in prison
He is a war criminal and liar he should be in prison.....no shame blood on is hands
Imagine all those British service men - many servicemen dead and those who survived have PTSD and other mental health issues.
Not to mention the hundreds and thousands of Iraqi and Afghani citizens who were killed
If this were to happen again - the public would surely side again with the aggressor (hint hint Israel)
I will never forget when Mr. Blair wrote the word Victory in Parliament papers (may 2003). If only he had known how his war would really end.....
Not a big fan of TB but I do feel that he is trying to explain very well the decisions but not everyone will agree I know.
accually no one with any pinch of humanity should agree with blair the guy is basically saying iraq refused to bow to us soo we felt threatened and killed thousands (around a million accually) so they could have their freaking oil
Tony idoit
Where did the weapons of mass destruction go?
Ambassador of peace my arse
Why does the Hague not do anything about Blair and Bush?
iraq war was a shame tooo many soldiers died for no reason.
He is Embarrassing for the Catholic church
Killer
If not for his decision to go to war I think Blair would be remembered as one of our greatest PMs. Instead the tragedy of Iraq will stain him forever. It also began the decline in popularity of the new Labour party- I dont think they would have gone in the same political direction or spent so long in opposition since if Blair hadn't supported the war- things could have been so different for Britain.
And yet they won the election that followed the war. Their biggest defeat came under Corbyn, who famously opposed it.
Blair's entire family wealth should be confiscated and re-distributed amongst the families of his victims. We need to send a strong message to individuals who perform 'on our behalf' on the world stage that they will be held personally accountable for their actions. Tony Blair represents ruthless ambition, secret handshakes and obscene personal wealth gained at the expense of the most needy in our world.
Virtue signalling comment.
Afganstian Iraq Libya somalia Syria every where the west intervene in has been a utter destruction and left behind diversion and worst then before then went in.
The bottom line is leave it to those countries to remove their problem like Egypt or Tunisia . Tony went in with his ear wiggling with excitement not knowing the outcome that could came out of it. Now there's people paying the price in those countries.
No surprise there. Ever wondered why the West is so rich? Because they stole everything from these countries.
He served the Israeli interests to destroy Iraq 🇮🇶
Truly sad 😔
Did a million Iraq’s die
I know a lot of things are hidden in this world
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Blair has a false reading of history. There is a train of thought that the "Arab Spring" would not have happened had Afghanistan & Iraq not happened, which meant Saddam would not have had to crack down to preserve his power and, similarly, there would be no Syrian civil war.
I supported the war in Afghanistan. There was reason to believe Osama Bin Laden was in the country & that the Government was complicit in terrorist training. Iraq was an ideological war & Chilcots report shows we had not exhausted all other options before invasion.
Blair is disingenuous and does not want to admit that he is wrong
Well the thing is housing Ben Laden isn't a justification for ruining a country... The coalition should have destroyed Al-Qaeda's network there while being allies of the northern alliance and let them oversee afghan politics instead of putting in their greedy fingers while not knowing anything about the country, putting Karzai and his kleptocrats in charge and creating the most pathetic and corrupt government in Aghanistan in 60 years of failed regimes...
A man that now sits comfortably on a personal fortune in excess of £100m.
They say follow the money, don’t they.
He should be repeating this speech to himself in his prison cell, when he can’t sleep at nights.
Oh shut up. Easy for a pub talker like u to sit there and criticise. Blair made real decisions! #NewLabour #TeamBlair
BLAH BLAH BLAH!
BLAH BLAH! 😭
BLAH BLAH BLUB!!
This man is the scourge of the earth..
Give him his Oscar & tell him where to go?
eh?
War criminal.
What crime did he commit?
Men in suits who start these wars are the ones who should fight them
Imagine being this thick
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crocodile tears
Don't trust this Madman.
I genuinely think Tony Blair is honest about what he says and his decision was the right one, given the available intelligence at the time.
The conspiracy theorists should learn to respect facts. No wrongdoings were found from him. Most European and American intelligent security services had concluded that the intervention was necessary, and that's what their governments did.
Agreed. Far too many sheep jumping on the anti Blair bandwagon.
ERM CONSPIRACEY THEORY? ? ? THERES THIS REPORT THAT HAS COME OUT - ITS CALLED THE CHILCOT REPORT OR THE IRAQ ENQUIRY - GOOGLE IT.
ITS NO BAND WAGON MILLIONS MARCHED AGAINST THIS WAR AND MILLIONS WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE JUSTICE
Why do u think he should so care about 9.11 which is not really British problem? In his sound byte, Aftermath of 9.11, The whole west brotherhood campaign with America against terrorism by Tony is non realistic and resisting for British people because saadam's removal is American willingness no matter how America pressurize its allies like Britain . In result of his junior American acting out, British citizens naturally worry about the adversaries , terrorists group in Iraq see Britain as enemy. This whole press interview comes down to how to Britain reset alliance with America in future
Agreed in full with OP.
Arrogance beyond belief for one of the worst and bloodiest decisions in human history.
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The most arrogant and dishonest politician Britain has ever had to suffer. I cannot grasp how is still walking free, or why he is not far too embarrassed to appear in public. I conclude he is not right in the head. It is unsurprising that he's next in line for leading the WEF. He has all the right qualifications.
I was one of the millions of protesters from the Strand to Trafalgar Square.
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The truth is in his name. bLAIR!
The Hague.Taxi for Tony.......
Did the UN bless this war. NO.
We got the oil now let’s pretend we made a mistake
Boycott oil
They can't get any more oil in the same manner, so now he's turned his attention to hydrogen and electric batteries instead...
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Liar 🤥
Probably not
1:33:30 Buzzfeed. What a credible news source.
Wenger Out
Pure evil.
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hopefully on the point of him saying live he takes full responsibility the Hague will have him arrested and tried with open admission for knowingly or not commiting war crimes along with George W Bush Jr.
R.I.P each soul that departed prior, during and since the war as this man's behaviour clearly influenced that hornets nest ling before officially gaining power.
GTFO - the world is a better place without saddam - Blair did a good job
which law did Tony Blair break?
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"What history ends up deciding about Iraq is going to depend a lot on what happens in the future." - Tony Blair
History already happened and was planned.
He thinks history hasn't yet come to a view on Iraq
Stop waggling that finger. No more blood for lies. The fall guy? Kelly doc. FREE JULIAN ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
I am an American who was against the war in Iraq (I remembered all too well the casualties of the Viet Nam war), and I remember so clearly being shocked when it was announced that the UK would back the US. That is the point when my opinion of Blair changed. And I do remember thinking that maybe things would have been different if Blair's decision had been different. But who knows. The movie "W," if true, showed us that Cheney wanted the oil first and foremost, and Condoleezza Rice never had an independent thought of her own.
The movie “W” is a movie, NOT a documentary. Do not take it all as fact.
They killed over 200000 people
Always oil. Sounds logical but it isn’t. Iraq produces 3% of global supply. The US consumed 20%. People wake up.
This is obviously why it's important about why and how people should vote before anything happens so that the people are consulted and felt heard
It’s nothing to do with oil. Just looking at oil production numbers reveal that Iraq produces 3% of global production. Let’s look at facts. What would my people eat if the oil taken way? Live under sadam in Iraq before grandstanding
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tell me tony about pnac the neocon thinktank with Rumsfeld Cheney and Kissinger.
kissenger and over neo cons apposed the intervention
+LucaEnzo Kissinger is hardly a neocon. He's mostly opposed to the Wilsonian idealism of neoconservative and much more indebted to realpolitik.
+Joseph hes a neolib and a neocon. hes a globalist. he was on the 911 commission.
Pig
This reminds me of dog poo but with arms legs and a head.
He is a real leader
Hahaha nice one mate
Waffle mode fully engaged
Internal elements linking with external elements ... yada yada yada blah blah blah
Yet more TB bullshit
Watch Dave Chappelle's "Black George Bush." Thank me later
"I take full responsibility for the consequences of the Iraq war" - Tony the liar portraying himself as a martyr, a victim. He takes up his cross and he wants us to see him as a Christ like figure. Disgusting man
Is not the point of the UN that if countries cannot agree that war is not allowed. The fact that the UN did not agree, Tony is making an argument for war, surely that fact the UN did not agree should have been an argument against war? Turns out the UN was right on this one...
No worries ‘lessons were learnt’ 🤪
I think he made a terrible mistake ‘ he’s own vanity got the better of him “
I’ll never forget Blair and Bush walking in that garden together ‘ poor old Tony couldn’t believe he was rubbing shoulders with the most powerful man on Earth 🌍. He just sold he’s soul on that day, for a pocket full of gold ‘ so look at him now “
An old greying man ‘ roaming the planet giving speeches to rich fools like himself.
Just to finish off “ why does Blair keep pausing for?
Thanks 🙏
WMD??????
TB has made only crazy mistakes in his life he's still interfering with politics when out of his job
Whoever decided that it was appropriate to interject upbeat adverts about Asahi into this solemn video, every, four, minutes, should suffer legal action
Tony Blair's denial of lying to the House of Commons regarding the Iraq invasion is itself a falsehood. Throughout his addresses to Parliament, Blair consistently presented information and details with a feigned certainty, lending an illusion of truth where none existed. His words were meticulously crafted to sway support, yet concealed the ambiguity inherent in his claims. His admission of "critical mission errors" is carefully couched in collective terms, deflecting personal accountability for decisions that led to disastrous outcomes. The press conference he convened serves as a calculated ploy, a preemptive strike against the Chilcot report, aimed at diluting its findings and preempting potential legal repercussions for war crimes and deception to the House of Commons. Moreover, when answering the journalist's question: "look me in the eyes...", in Blair's response he markedly increased his blink rate 16 times more than the previous 5 minutes, a subconscious acknowledgement of falsehood, rendering his denial self evident, he knew what he was doing period.
If the US wanted to go to war, that does not mean Britain has to be the trumpet section.
imagine a day when a million people stand in front of him that died because of him. i.e Judgement Day.
A million against one man wow
he is completely false
This is an example of an irresponsible leader. It is very clear that he made the wrong decision, look at now, is iraq getting better or not? Obviously Not!
Arab spring wouldn't have happened without the Iraq invasion
Middle East would be so much more peaceful if it wasn;t for him or Bush.
Ryan Odonnell
The Arab Spring has been a disaster...look at Egypt...Sisi is worse than the last western imposed disaster and that was not the Muslim Brotherhood. Dont bother to go on about the MB cus if the West hates them then they are the best thing for the ME.
Iraq 2003 wouldn't have happened without 9/11 (likely)
Private notes have no bearing, there was a middle way. Stick to UN resolution.
If Saddam wasn't killed, what would be result?
I think he had no other choice
No one knows. We appeased Hitler prior the 2nd world war, many historians believe if we had declared war sooner, the war would not have been as catastrophic
38 million refugees