Blair Switches to auto-Pilate (Pontius Pilate his Hero) in Parliment

[KoKo]

(C-Span had Blair's appearance yesterday and he was pathetic (Bushlike)...here's a good review of what he said)

Blair switches to auto-Pilate

By Andrew Gimson, Commons sketch
Last Updated: 2:08am GMT 22/02/2007

Like Pontius Pilate, the Prime Minister sometimes feels the need to wash his hands in public. Such an occasion occurred yesterday, when Tony Blair declared himself innocent of the bloodshed in Iraq.

This was an apologia in which Mr Blair sounded very tired, but not very apologetic. Whoever else is to blame, it is not him. At one point he said of the terrorists in Iraq, "We will beat them when we realise it is not our fault that they're doing it,""We don't apologise for our values but stand up for them."

Sir Menzies Campbell, for the Liberal Democrats, retorted that while we "shouldn't apologise for our values", we still have to "take responsibility for our actions".


The same point was made with even greater force by Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former Tory foreign secretary, who accused the Prime Minister of being "still in denial" and offered the unanswerable observation that al-Qa'eda can only use Iraq as a battlefield "because of the decision he took and President Bush took to invade that country".

Mr Blair repeated: "We didn't cause the terrorism. The terrorists caused the terrorism."

The question that provoked in some of us was: "Didn't you realise the terrorists would cause the terrorism?"

Mr Blair faces a choice between admitting that he was naïve and admitting he took us to war on a false prospectus, and naturally he prefers to avoid giving either answer.

more...good read to finish here.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=T3S0VXV3OW5M3QFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/22/niraq422.xml

[malaise]

1. I watched him live and was shocked

to hear him state that the coalition is not responsible for the hundreds of thousand dead Iraqis. Delusional is a kind word for these war criminals.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. He continued whining "It's not my fault" this morning in a radio interview

Tony Blair has refused to apologise for the security situation in Iraq, saying he bears no responsibility for it.

The prime minister told BBC Radio 4 that extremists trying to thwart Iraq's democracy were to blame for attacks.

"I don't think we should be apologising at all for what we are doing in Iraq. We're trying to support the democrats against the terrorists," he added.
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"I don't think we should be apologising because we're not causing the terrorism.

"It's being caused by internal extremists who are linking up with external extremists. And 80-90% of that violence is in or around Baghdad and it's being caused deliberately in order to stop the government of Iraq - which 12 million people voted for - from functioning."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6385137.stm

Link to interview on that page, if you can bear 30 minutes of Blair trying to claim that they had to disband all the Iraqi police and military, but the lack of any replacement police or military who could speak the language or have a cat in hell's chance of getting the populace on their side wasn't his fault at all, oh no sir. :banghead:

[Solly Mack]

3. Not surprising - distasteful, yes. Outrageous, yes. A lie, most definitely.

But hardly shocking..such a speech was to be expected.

Those that can invade a country for no reason will not have a hard time excusing any other abuse that stems from the original act. Blaming the victim is second-nature to those who think they have the unquestionable right to attack others.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. He even blamed God once

He said he prayed before he made his decision to be bushie's unquestioning poodle and so God was responsible for the consequences.

He is a pathetic and cowardly MFer.