Graham ([info]tao_) wrote,
@ 2007-05-11 09:31:00
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"I did what I thought was right."
Farewell, then, to Tony Blair, the accidental mass murderer.


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[info]pugheth
2007-05-11 09:02 am UTC (link)
Thanks Christ he didn't do what he thought was wrong.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-11 10:22 am UTC (link)
"Thanks Christ he didn't do what he thought was wrong."

Well, hold on - what did he think was wrong?

On the evidence of the last decade, 'wrong' to Blair would have to include re-nationalising the railways, reducing the gap between the richest and the poorest, honouring the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, observing international law as laid out in the UN charter...

I'd rather he'd done what he thought was wrong.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-11 09:53 am UTC (link)
Aw, come on fellas... he tried something out and it didn't work out. That could happen to anyone. I remember I once had a wedge cut into the back of my hair. Looked awful.

But at least I tried, godamnit... at least I tried.

Oh, and I once killed a man trying to do a volley during five-a-side.

Jasper Goodballoon

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[info]pugheth
2007-05-11 02:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm leaving my job next week and liberal estimates claim only 4 deaths can be attributed to my time here. Yet HE's the one being rewarded with a multi-million pound spell on the lecture circuit. Makes you sick!

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[info]rickyy
2007-05-11 06:42 pm UTC (link)
The part that made me smile was his 'give the impossible a go' line. His time in office has taught him to give the impossible a go. Rather than to realise that the impossible is not possible. Here's a more valuable lesson: Don't blindly support a neocon moron's knee-jerk foot-stomping of arab nations owing to his own self-importance and distorted religious simplification of right and wrong. For all the lies and rhetoric that proceeded it his 'war on terror' can ultimately be likened to throwing a grand piano at a wasp. Or something. And then sending in more troops to shoot at it until it goes away. An excellent politician but a bit of a rubbish prime minister. His Irish 'legacy' notwithstanding.

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[info]rickyy
2007-05-11 07:02 pm UTC (link)
By way of addendum:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/do-gooder

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It's come to this..
(Anonymous)
2007-05-12 02:10 pm UTC (link)
When my 9 year old daughter hears Blair's name mentioned, she now states...
"He's a liar"

I mean, we all tell lies occasionally, only my lies don't (intentionally) get thousands of people killed.

Welcome to the rest of your life Blair (unlike the many others who won't get that chance, a direct result of YOUR actions).

Si

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[info]petrichor_fizz
2007-05-12 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I don't want to be lynched for saying this, but... sort of puts VT in perspective, doesn't it? And 9/11, for that matter.

Not that a tragedy ought to be measured by the number of fatalities, I suppose; although I can't think of a better way.

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[info]palali
2007-05-14 03:21 am UTC (link)
I try to avoid all the knee-jerk, reactionary comments that people make about Blair. I dismiss all the weightless and opinionated indictments of his office and the choices he's made. However, even taking into account all sides of the arguement, I have to say I'm glad to see the back of him. I just hope we don't inadventantly take a step into an insular and fruitless future as a result of a thoughtless backlash against our current government. Though from where I'm standing, we're out of choices.

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[info]tao_
2007-05-14 08:04 am UTC (link)
650,000 dead Iraqis. Is that 'weightless'? There's nothing knee-jerk or reactionary about objecting to that! Unless, of course, you're someone who thinks that the deaths of non-English-speaking people don't count.

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[info]palali
2007-05-14 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Oh come on now, that's a little off base. I should however have been clearer about what I was saying, I apologise for that. I was talking generally, this particular story would be an example of something that certainly isn't 'weightless.' If accurate, it's yet another in a long list of reasons why the Iraq war should have never happened and why we need to pull out immediately. I'm just worried what this backlash against Blair will lead us to.

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[info]tao_
2007-05-14 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Well, if it's a backlash against Blair, maybe it'll lead to...accountability? Respect for International Law? An end to UK-sanctioned torture? An end to detention without trial? Now that's a backlash that cannot come too soon, in my view.

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[info]palali
2007-05-14 07:00 pm UTC (link)
I wholeheartedly agree, but I'm not so optimistic that it will lead to that. Blair should be held accountable of course, I'm just worried that all this focus of blame on the figurehead will draw attention away from the bigger picture. Our entire government, regardless of party (with some obvious exceptions), holds some degree of responsibility for the crimes committed and the blatent disregard shown toward public international law.

I'm just highly skeptical of this attitude that getting rid of Blair and holding him accountable for his actions as quickly as possible will somehow solve all these problems and relieve our collective guilt. The repercussions need to be more widespread.

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[info]tao_
2007-05-14 07:55 pm UTC (link)
You can't arrest everybody responsible. Blair alone would do.

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[info]tao_
2007-05-14 07:52 pm UTC (link)
...and sorry for being snappy. I just feel very strongly about mass-murder and torture.

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