Afghanistan: Former PM Tony Blair calls Afghan withdrawal a ‘serious mistake’
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- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has called the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan “not something we needed to do” and a “serious mistake”.
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It’s really heartbreaking and panful to see, when war criminals talk about human rights😢😢.
he wasnt a war criminal, did he lie or was he misled by bush, i dont know, however saddam hussain was a monster and im not sorry he is gone.
@@twistedcherrypop he was a war monger, now Saddam has gone it has got much worse
@@twistedcherrypop Saddam was a fearful figure but that meant he kept his people in check. Iraq was stable under his rule.
@@twistedcherrypop u may be happy but Iraqis feel lied to manipulated the very man who destroyed his statue says he regrets it that hed have him back any day
Both Blair & Bush were (& are) in thrall to Israel, the IsraelLobby is the strongest lobby in Parliament by a huge margin, stronger even than oil. The whole Iraq mess was down to Israel, from the CIA putting Hussein into position to the war to remove him. Israel is a constructed country, it's population is gathered from across the world, the internal factions are impossible to keep from each other's throats without the entire region being unstable so the politicians can spin it as a constant threat. (Don't forget Orwell's '1984' was published the same year Israel was created). Biden is in thrall to Israel too, Afghanistan was trashed so Israel can say to it's people "look over there, don't look at your neighbours"
Oh look, it’s the Tony Blair The Warmonger telling us to keep a senseless war going
That’s not what he’s saying at all ffs 🙄
@@timcomley3241 maybe we could send him there to negotiate with the taliban directly , cant think of a better person for the job
Tony should become the new Peace Envoy to Khabul
@BILLY PIECRUST Don't forget he also brought peace to Afghanistan and Iraq, clearly Northern island would have been incapable of making peace without magic Tony, their prophecy spoke of him, we all know the great Irish prophecy of the man with more teeth than a shark would turn up and flatley would do a river dance, and the Irish would live with the fairies and elves, whilst wearing tights.
@@martinus4873 On second thoughts let's just send him there full stop. Oh how he would be smiling, I know I would, well maybe laughing, that's kind of a smile.
Wow just wow the brass nerve of this man never ceases to amaze me!
My sentiments exactly👍👍👍this despot has a skin of a Rhinoceros 😯😯😯 ..this individual with blood on his hands following Iraq .....and for me ..on the domestic front,living in dictatorial Wales he the instigator of the 'devolved Nations ' fiasco!!!.. and only a few weeks ago,trying to tell the government how to distribute the Covid Vaccine. Unbelievable😯😯😯
Go back to the daily mail.
@@junehill4636 Its Teflon, June. Nothing sticks.
The public don’t care what he think, this is not worth our time. Let us know when he find WMD in Iraq. 😉
@@johnh3957 exactly so why do the media keep wheeling him out like a prized Pillock!
here is a man with no shame.
@BILLY PIECRUST Oh the war mongering is all forgiven then!
@BILLY PIECRUST STFU!!! lol
@BILLY PIECRUST How does that make it any better, oh tolerant one?
@BILLY PIECRUST 48 countries - most sent a small contingent of forces. Meanwhile the US and UK led the damn charge and have spent the most amount of taxpayers money for a war that resulted in us losing and probably supplying the Taliban for a couple of decades.
Yeah I'm all in favour of calling Blair out for his actions
@BILLY PIECRUST 48 bribed countries?
He, along with Bush, created this mess and now has the nerve to lecture us on Afghanistan.
This creation” begun in 1979 during Jimmy Carters presidency.
Look up: CIA, Operation Cyclone,
and the founding of Mujahideen, the fathers of the Talibans….
Btw: US seems to be controlled/run by CIA and the outcome of your elections likely doesn’t matter …….
Jimmy Carter created this mess, by in 1979 initiating a multibillion-dollar CIA covert operation to arm, train and equip the Taliban to fight the Soviets.
In doing so he assured the Taliban’s ascendency, along with the spread of radical Islam into central Asia,
@@annaannan6840 Two points. First, arming them at the time was a good thing cos it harmed the Soviets. Eventually, under Reagan, the Soviets were losing several dollars (I don't remember the exact number, it was quoted in the book 'Charlie Wilson's War') for every dollar CIA and the Saudies spent (the Saudies matched the American spending). This worsened the economic situation in USSR and may have contributed to the ascendance of Gorbachev. That was a very good value for money and one of the rare occassions when the taxpayers' dollars were put to good use. Second, Carter did not send troops to Afghanistan, did not engage in nation building, did not introduce quotas for women in the Afghan army and parliament, and so on, and so on.
Here's someone that should of been in jail for 20 years ago for war crimes.
@Bobby Sands no he didnt haha
... I still want to know where the weapons of mass destruction are in Iraq 🤔
Plenty of oil and lithium, though
hahahahaha
George W. Bush Jokes about WMD
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Blair should go there and liberate the Afghans.
@Wocky this is the hope & dream
I think Blair should take a few Iraqi, Syrian and Afghan families into his house if they matter so much to him. Oh wait they do not matter that much to him. It is more important to kill hundreds of thousands in the Middle East to Tony Blair.
@Wocky hopefully they would be creative and drag it out for days.
blair was britains biden
Taliban militants rape women
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I'm shocked to hear that Taliban broke the terms of the agreement. It's truely shocking!
😂🤣😆 terrorists broke promises..shock
@@TheSuperPsychoKiller
America lies and cheats and steals too
Tony blair' totally honest man who would never tell a lie....why isnt he in prison for war crimes ?
Wasn’t B LIAR allegedly already arrested and xcuted for crimes against humanity ?
@BILLY PIECRUST Corbyn negotiated the prisoner release with Mo Mowlam over many months behind the scenes and prisoner release was the main roadblock to peace. Corbyn gets called a terrorist sympathiser and Blair gets the accolades...
If I ran a country interested in annexing another country via genocide and needed advice on how not to stir up the international community while creating a humanitarian disaster I'd hire Tony Blair as an advisor...
@BILLY PIECRUST Yea, but Blair dropped clause 4, dragged Labour to the centre, shifted the Overton window to the right, dragged us into a neocon war and now takes money from Saudi Arabia to help with their PR over the genocide in Yemen...
So erm, fk him!
PS What happened to David Kelly?
Waiting for a 2 for 1 deal so Boris can keep him company….thing is Boris killed 150K UK citizens, spent a fortune and we all got to pay for it…they are all the same.
This interview should have taken place in a jail cell.
Best comment on here.
@@robertcooper411 One of many other brainless, useless comments in fact.
This criminal should be jailed by international criminal court straight away
Please list the alleged crimes
Nope.
@@martinw245 knowingly making up iraqi nuclear weapons to invade the country along with criminal bush. Then subsequently leading to the ruin of the country and no reparations for the damage
Here’s a man who needs to remember the WMD fiasco.
and the death of Dr. Kelly
Don’t forget Rwanda.
@@psacclose9823 murdered 💯
He's a politician, his memory is only the length of the time between elections.
@@dartmoordave actually I have it on good scientific authority that thier memories are comparable to that of a carnival gold fish but with the 9 lives of a cat 🤭
He along with Bush, should be rotting in prison for the number of innocent people that have died at their hands.
How does he sleep at night. Knowing over a million have died based on lies… god must be so proud of him
Tony Blair is Scottish and so is Alex Salmond.
Him and bush are literally terrorists
@@buckrussel3808 That’s your opinion. There’s a lot science cannot answer, a lot that doesn’t make any sense.. how Earth is the only planet with living organisms in our solar system and many others. Therefore let people believe in God and stop spouting your opinions as they are facts, it’s just being ignorant.
Answer he's a Catholic they don't have a conscience ! 😁👍
@@keplermission4947 Blair was Born in Edinburgh but is as about as Scottish as Margaret Thatcher ever was.
How is there a war criminal allowed on sky news?
Why isn't this man in prison? SOMEONE TELL ME -_-
I wonder the same, TB belongs in prison 🙁
he's Israel's shill, Skynews wouldn't dare go against them
@@luljetasali6584 If he does then so do George W Bush, the former American President, And same with John Howard, Australia's former PM
The multimillionaire prime minister talking about distress with a big grin on his face 😄 😀 😁 😆
He seems so upbeat about the dead soldiers of his army giving their lives, It is hard to watch this poor excuse of a man,
The smiling assassin
I’ve noticed he’s smiling and he also knows what people’s opinion are about him. He’s doing this deliberately to annoy people and he’s enjoying it and gets paid for it. Who approached this man for his opinion? That’s the true evil.
This is the guy that y'all should be blaming not looking to for solutions
100%
The opposite.
Oh look Tony Blair that's everywhere has came back out from under his rock
@Bobby Sands FFS way and eat a burger 🍔
@Bobby Sands crawl back under your trailer park
@Bobby Sands I only marry black men
One liar talking about another, Blair and Biden, what a pair.
Does anyone remember when Blair was at conference with Bush and Bush clicked his fingers at Blair and called “ here boy “.
I think the media is owned by the same people who want to keep Britain a USA lapdog, and keep our economy closely linked with USA banks/ international bankers/ war machine, encouraging people to live in greed and debt, as why doesn't the media ever remind people of how Afghanistan wasn't extremist until the USA were arming and training them in Afghanistan against Russia? Then the USA didn't care what was going on in Afghanistan after their involvement, such as ancient Buddhist statues being blown up and females banned from education, for years before 9/11.
Now we also support and sell arms to Saudi Arabia, where women and other religions don't have full human rights.
While we're arming extremists to overthrow Assad in Syria. Syria was one of the few middle east countries with many religions that live together in peace, with ancient Christian communities who still speak Aramaic. Yet we arm extremists in Syria because the USA doesn't like it Assad is a friend of Russia, and Russia speaks against the hypocrisy of the USA and Britain supporting Saudi Arabia, while overthrowing leaders in other nations.
I think Britain is quite a brainwashed nation. Especially since the 80s, when the Tory government did the opposite of Germany by making millions unemployed and left Britain and economy closely linked with USA banks encouraging everybody live in greed and debt. For the economy to crash every few years when many can't pay back the debts they're encouraged to live on.
When British tourists were shot in Tunisia and blown up in Manchester by extremists trained in Libya after Gaddafi, what media reminded the people of how the secret service whistle blower David Shayler told how Thatcher was using British money to go along with the USA funding Al Qaeda in Libya against Gaddafi? A country people didn't pay household bills, while more old British people were dy ing of the cold than before Tories stole and sold off public owned energy.
@@charlottelee3727 the Buddhist was ment to piss off the Chinese but the cia/tailabans forgot Chinese government dont care about any religion.
the rule is government above religion
Just give him to the Talibans.
Yes, they play that game Bushkazi, with the carcase of a goat. Perhaps they'd like an elegant variation on that.
🤣🤣🤣
there should be a raffle to help pay for his air ticket to Kabul ( cargo of course )
Please!
If carlsberg done wishes!!!
How dare he be speaking his lies were the reason we went in the first place!!
How does he still get airtime? No credibility at all, corrupt man,corrupt wife and corrupt family
What is really funny is that whoever is the PM and MPs they make the decision to go to Wars but do not go anywhere near the battle field and see horrible things!
They don't make the decision - they just manipulate us into doing it for their masters.
Wonder if he will send his own son to fight these wars he so craves to get involve ?
Lol a tory in Labour clothing, this war criminal needs to be held accountable
It was too good to be true that Blair would stay forever silent about the debacle in Afghanistan.
You'd think he'd keep his mouth shut. He's an embarrassment.
How this man can turn up on tv and say what he’s saying after all the blood he as on his hands is beyond me ,horrible horrible human being,needs to be locked up
Here here
Agreed
Because he is political establishment
Blair loves a war.
Blair witch project.
Blair loves war yes BUT he never goes too fight himself or put himself in danger
@BILLY PIECRUST 🎣🧟♂️
@BILLY PIECRUST Indeed.
Look at how well and healthy this man looks. Hes living a good wealthy life, a war criminal for the labour party that started this whole mess
The man who is responsible for killing of more than a million people given air time, who should've been rotting behind bars for life.
Calm down
This war criminal should be in jail..took UK into Afghanistan and Iraq for no reason, I genuinely hope there is a special place in hell for him.
Someone, please ask him, if he's going to pay for the war? How many trillions has he got in his pocket lol.
What a disgraceful approach, to speak in support of continuous war, rather than peace.
Delusional career politicians. Their weapons are their words, and we all pay a price when they're given a platform.
The only serious mistake here was Tony's dad forgetting to pull out.
And he is still brazen enough to come, and lecture others about his virtue, and how wise were all his decisions, including invading Iraq which made him super rich.
Why are so many British people are brainwashed by Tory propaganda? Is it because the media is owned by the same people who want to keep us a USA lapdog? Why do people go on about Blair and Iraq, but completely ignore the many previous years of Tories turning us into a USA state, so we didn't have any choice, which is why more Tory MPs voted yes to the 2nd war than MPs from other parties? Like when John Major committed us to staying the 2nd largest force in the region after 1st Iraq war, after the USA blew up tanks of British soldiers in the 1st Iraq war?
That's why USA born Boris Johnson can talk nonsense, and no media tells the people. Like when the media made a massive fuss when Boris said a dumb unimportant comment on a TV show, but the media didn't say anything when Boris said on the same TV show that there wasn't a vote on the 2nd war against Iraq, when more Tory MPs had voted yes. That means either Boris puts on a clown act to get away with blaming others for what Tories cause and the media is in with him, or Boris is stupid and the only point in the media is to dumb down society by constantly forcing talentless celeb's in our faces.
No wonder nobody cares our lives are still in danger from previous actions of Tories to make us a USA lapdog. Like when the secret service whistle blower David Shayler told how Thatcher was using British money to go along with the USA funding Al Qaeda in Libya against Gaddafi. That was while more old British people were dying of the cold than before Tories stole and sold off public owned energy. It wasn't until Tony Blair came into power, that he helped stop old people dying of the cold with the old weather payments.
When British tourists were shot in Tunisia by extremists from Libya after Gaddafi, no media reminded people Tories funded the extremists with our money, while taking away money from vital services.
Next time Kay Burley interviews the Taliban can she please ask how they are immune to the virus, would love to know their secret .
80% of Afghan population is under age of 35 years
Because of the situation, the number of deaths and infections there are not being reported. The little data that is recorded is very skewed. Also, they all wear masks and clothing which cover their faces. Plus there's the being shot in the face for being outside your home and not a Taliban member. I suspect that's probably stopping the numbers from escalating. Then there's the fact no one other than reporters has traveled to Afghanistan for years, because let's admit it, who wants to go to Afghanistan? They're clearly not immune.
The Talibans are immune to the virus bcz for years they don’t take shower so the cells in their bodies are block, well I guess that’s the secret plus they are the biggest disease themselves
@@samkakar7143 er, no
Because they know it is a scam
War criminals shouldn't be getting airtime
Those dead eyes do make me smile tho.
Blaming Trump basically
Pretty rich coming from someone with so much Afghan and Iraqi blood on his hands!!! He should be arrested for war crimes. The fact is he stood there and lied to the UK public saying Saddam had WMD’s and could launch them against Europe with 45 minutes
He is unhappy because he missed Most of the Lithium and Gold.
Blair's sons are of military age and he should make them join the army and make sure they serve in Afghanistan or is that just for the sons and daughters of other people.
What about his daughter. I am all for equal rights, which we are always being informed about.
Everyone has a choice about whether to join the army. No-one is conscripted.
At least Harold Wilson as the labour prime minister stayed out of an American war.
He looks haunted he knows he's a war criminal!
Looks like Gary Oldmans Dracula now
One of the original architects of this mess.
Jimmy Carter created this mess, by in 1979 initiating a multibillion-dollar CIA covert operation to arm, train and equip the Taliban to fight the Soviets.
In doing so he assured the Taliban’s ascendency, along with the spread of radical Islam into central Asia,
@@annaannan6840 I didn't know that, it seems the incompetence spans a long way back
@@feverpitch82 yep, Afghanistan was in 1979 a quite westernised and modern country. Women could vote, wear dresses, go to school, to the movies…..
Then CIA wanted to prevent Soviet from expanding and therefore decided to build, train and arm a “small” group of Afghan rebels that were strong believers in Islam (The Talibans). The CIA encouraged their extremists religious beliefs and gave them huge amounts of money and enough weapons to fight of the Soviet.
The CIA then helped the Talibans defeat the Afghan government ( that was to friendly towards Soviet ) and installed them as the new leaders of Afganistan.
The women lost all their rights, movies was burned to the ground, girls wasn’t allowed in school, women wasn’t allowed to leave the home unaccompanied. People were stoned, had their limbs cut of …………
The CIA then left the country that after the “civil “ war had become dirt poor.
Some of radical psychopaths blamed US for the poverty (rightfully?) and sometime later the terrorism started to grow closer to the West.
After 9/11 2001 the US finally decided to go back to Afganistan. They took back the power from the CIA-created Talibans and created a new Afganistan government. The women got their human rights back (at least in city areas) and could once again go to school, were dresses and didn’t have to fear being stoned to death for example, committing the crime of letting themselves get raped…
But the US/West didn’t manage to completely defeat the Talibans, whom kept the power over the more rural areas.
The US/West are now once again abandoning the Afghan women and are giving the power back to the by CIA created radical group of Talibans…
It’s not just incompetence……..
War criminals
"Hi, i'm Tony Blair and i was relevant for 5 minutes, please listen to me"
10 years*
Absolute nonsense from the very man who created these mess,and yet being given the platform to spew out these ill-judged comments
Says the man who helped start this crap
Trouble was the Afghan army just folded up or ran away. They let their own people down.
The true face of EVIL.
Blair was the last good labour leader they were stupid to get rid of him. Now we are stuck with Boris and the cronies from Eton.
Sky news should of given him All but 45 Seconds to LEAVE Their premises.
couldn't agree more
20 years fighting and they can not win? It means they lost.
Straight facts 😎
Yup absolutely
street party in london when this "man" dies
Reported
@@healthiswealth1452 bullied at school?
@@dalebaker5030 😊
Tony Blair should be in jail for his part he played in the 9 11 attack.......
Wise man speak because have somethink to say: fools because they have to say something.-Plato
Even Plato put a fink at the end of thing words!?
This quote applies to the vast majority of comments in this comments section, but not Blair.
I have several problems with this. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. It’s had no WMD and the West knew that. In fact both US and U.K. governments lied to their own parliaments and sexed up intelligence to make the case. But Blair still went in with the US.
Yes the Taliban we’re awful once in power. But they were seen as hero’s before them because they stopped the civil war. Afghanistan had zero to do with 9/11. Valid still followed the US in to invading that country.
Yes, Bin Laden and Al Queda were harboured in Afghanistan. But -5 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals. Not one was Afghan. Also the Taliban were themselves a product of the US/Pakistan/ Saudi Arabia money, training and ideology from the early 1980’s. Blair knew this also. But still, against his own people, still invaded.
sky news is SICK
So is your sentenceconstruction
Yea indeed it is , not to worry , only the gullable believe a corporate media outlet owned by BlackRock /vanguard . Most sheeple wont even know what they are or WHO they are linked to higher up . Globalist government UN controlled by the globalist banker oligarchs , they control your politicians , your charities , your education system , your media , your healthcare , your police , your military ect
Why isn't this dude on trial yet?
Blair caused most of the problems we have today & here he is still mouthing on. When is he going to get it into his thick head, we are not interested in what he has to say. He should go & find a rock!!
tony still has war crimes to answer for
Take him to court for war crimes International World stage court and bush
Like so many others i believe that he should have faced trial over the illegal war in Iraq.
Is this man for real? After all he has done he's crawling out of the woodwork?
And they say crime doesn't pay?
Seeing as it was Blair who got us involved in the first place he should be appointed as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan immediately. His plane is waiting for him right now.
wrong title ill fix it: Tony Blair calls Afghan INVASION a ‘serious mistake’
There's and old adage " if politicians had to fight wars there would never be any " 😂😂
War criminal.
Wondered how long it'd be before he came out from under his rock and told us we'd made a terrible mistake and should stay in Afghanistan for ever and ever. Piss off Blair.
Comment on the Afghanistan situation now please, Not many are criticizing what the Dark Lord is saying in the interview
He has a property portfolio of around twenty homes, how many refugees have his family housed to date..?. It's all well and good that he supports the situation in Afghanistan, whilst he retires to his huge Georgian mansion in the countryside, away from the inner cities. "The Taliban will find the money that the West has given them," hasn't anyone told Tony that the president has flown the nest with huge amounts of the money we gave them and is living very comfortably in Dubai... This man should not speak publicly until he apologises for the deaths that occurred in Iraq.
Blair loves a war BUT he never goes to fight himself or put himself in harm's way
Why would he do that though
That's not the role of political/strategic leaders.
@@dreamer2260 maybe if the leader's of the world had to fight each other there would be a lot less war's
@@ruebencover5795 Maybe. But they used to lead armies into battle historically and there were still plenty of wars then. Sorry, but that’s just not the role of political leaders; that’s not conducive to effective national performance.
Mr murdering liar himself. How dare he even show his face. His wife is just as bad or worse....
Put liar Blair on the front line he'd soon change his views then.
Blair showing the moral compass again its laughable "do as I say, not as I do"
THERE ONLY A SECURITY THREAT BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL BE LIVING IN THE UK BY THE END OF THE WEEK😂
Why are the workers at sky "news" not holding b'liar to account regarding his role in all of this???😠😠😠😠😠😠
He knows a thing or two about mistakes
He’s a rich so good and honest. man why doesn’t he use his money to look after the Afghans instead of taking it from taxpayers in this country.
He isn't taking taxpayers' money anymore.
Blair it's been 20 years enough a enough.
Wonderful Tony Blair’s pearls of wisdom about Afghanistan,I think he has said his bit.
He's got some nerve
DAVID KELLY ?????? IRAQ ??????
Put him in the frontline and ask the same question again.
And we have changed as a country since. He has allowed many people into this country that do us harm, by either wanting to change our culture or obliterate us. This man needs to be put in prison along with those that he welcomed.
Blair might have been a left winger in domestic politics but he promoted a strong Britain standing alongside America. Leave the debate on Iraq for another day, separate issue, Blair here is well spoken and speaks the truth. We could have wound down this mission much more gradually, and if it got out of hand we should have got allied personnel and helpers out before pulling out any more troops.
Oh my God, will this turd flush already.
Can tony Blair go give his used car salesman routine to the people of Afghanistan
Wow, our big hero knows what to do while he's putting the freedom of the people overboard.
War criminal..
Tony Blair is like the media they like to hear their own voice
Nothing new for the Kurds. The West abandoned Kurdistan in 2018 and 2018 to the Turkish wolves. But Kurds fought and are still fighting. Fight for your own free homeland my dear friends in Afghanistan.
The Dark Lord speaks
NO it was a mistake to go Afghanistan and Iraq in the first place.
He's finally come out of the woodwork I see.
Funny how Labour supporters disown him.
Tony Bliar: Regime change now!
Taliban: Hold my non-alcoholic beer.
He should be in jail. He's a war criminal.
The serious mistake was his mother not using birth control.
Crass
BLAIR SHOULD BE IN PRISOM FOR WAR CRIMES🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬