Tony Blair’s Lame Apology: Blames “Bad Intel” for 2003 Iraq Invasion

tonyblairBy Melissa Dykes

In an interview with CNN this weekend, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized (kind of/sort of/not really) for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

“I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong,” Blair said, somehow with a straight face.

“…The program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought, so I can apologize for that…”


“I can also apologize, by the way, for some of the mistakes in planning and certainly our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you remove the regime… But I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam.”

He went on to admit that there are “elements of truth” to the statement that the rise of ISIS can be directly attributed to the invasion of Iraq.

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Considering Blair tried to play off the 2003 invasion as a response to a ‘crisis of the moment’ — and not something he had personally visited President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch to discuss a year before the invasion as a leaked memo later proved — is pathetic.

image002.jpgPresident Bush and seven of his top officials only lied to the American people and the world 935 times to get us into the war in Iraq to begin with.

The Telegraph is reporting that family members of soldiers who died in Iraq have responded to Blair’s “apology” with “revulsion”:

“I feel revulsion,” Mr Keys said. “This man certainly got it wrong. 179 British service personnel dead, 3,500 wounded. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children that lost their lives. The guy has got to hold his hands up [and say] I got it wrong and I apologise.”

It has also been suggested that Blair only apologized at all because the Chilcot Inquiry report is due out soon.

Mr Keys added: ““I feel that he’s obviously pre-empting the Iraq inquiry’s findings. It’s finger-pointing. He’s blaming intelligence chiefs for giving him the wrong intelligence. He’s not apologising for toppling Saddam.

“What about apologising for the unnecessary loss of life? The reason we went to war was weapons of mass destruction, not to topple Saddam.”

The Inquiry, British public inquiry into the UK’s role in the Iraq war, began in 2009.

Clare Short, former Labour Cabinet minister who resigned over Iraq, added: “He’s sorry for bits but he’s not really sorry.”

Figures differ depending on source, but a study in 2013 concluded the Iraq death toll was at least 500,000 people. Other sources say it’s well over a million dead.

Some “apology,” huh?

Either way, “For Chilcot and the Iraq War Inquiry, Iraq remains one giant unmarked grave of unknown size,” the website Iraq Body Count has declared.

Melissa Dykes is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!


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2 Comments on "Tony Blair’s Lame Apology: Blames “Bad Intel” for 2003 Iraq Invasion"

  1. Blair sold his soul & entered the ‘dark side BORG a long time ago…looks great lately-doesn’t he? (lol) a little green around the gills?…. as the parasitic life form that has taken over his body is oozing & roiling in his body cavities & his mind… as his eyes shape-shift from blue to black …collecting $millions yearly for frivolous rhetorical pro NWO speech-making with the usual prevaricating drivel & sophistry & outright falsehood…after all…his lips are moving as he’s a politician…& a diseased socio/psychopathic .WAR CRIMINAL!…..Hang em High!

  2. If the intelligence was wrong – then who is being charged with gross negligence? Or deliberate fraud to instigate a war? And what is being done to prevent this from happening again?

    If the corporate interests who profit from war can so easily corrupt the “intelligence” that is used for national security – then there is a serious problem that require a drastic solution. I suspect that the entire intelligence service in the US and UK is corrupted by corporate influence – creating whatever “intelligence” they need to use for manufacturing public support for whichever country they want to bomb next for financial and political gain. And I also suspect that the widespread increase of public surveillance, that was sold to us in the name of “national security” is in fact used to collect dirt on politicians for the purpose of blackmail, and to keep tabs on protestors and whistleblowers. And the mainstream media are complicit in the lies by failng to conduct any meaningful investigatory journalism, and instead opting to simply parrot whatever lies they are fed by the government.

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