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- 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 ...
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
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...
"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.
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.
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
I can't listen, he turns my stomach
He’s fake, invented, not real.
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.
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.....
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
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.
War criminal should be jailed
Tell us the truth, Blair - what happened to Dr Kelly?
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.
He's a cold blooded liar
That he is
idiot
He's a damnable devil
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...
I was one of the millions of protesters from the Strand to Trafalgar Square.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
Whoever decided that it was appropriate to interject upbeat adverts about Asahi into this solemn video, every, four, minutes, should suffer legal action
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?
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)
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
Where did the weapons of mass destruction go?
He explained why and the basis for his decision. He expressed a great regret. We choose to side step all this. Very objective comments !!
Arrogance beyond belief for one of the worst and bloodiest decisions in human history.
The truth is in his name. bLAIR!
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
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
Pure evil.
War criminal
What crime did he commit?
Hideous war criminal and he should face trial (also a hideous human being who has blood of countless thousands dripping from his hands )RIP Dr David Kelly, your concerns were wholly correct as most of the country knew but this horrid man took no notice.
Oh bore off, Kelly topped himself, case closed
@@philbrainy2399no he didnt
A warlord he should bee in prison
He went on to have a lifestyle travelling to countries & continents we, the people, can only experience through the media??
Men in suits who start these wars are the ones who should fight them
Imagine being this thick
"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
War criminal.
What crime did he commit?
Tony Blair.. when the evil speaks
"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"
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)
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.
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...
He is a real leader
Hahaha nice one mate
1:33:30 Buzzfeed. What a credible news source.
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.
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 Embarrassing for the Catholic church
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.
Twisted logic. Blair basically acknowledges today that the invasion was a disaster but refuses to say the invasion was wrong. He says the decision to invade was good and sound but acknowledges the consequences were unforeseen and tragic. This disconnect in his reasoning is quite frankly ludicrous. He simply isn't accepting responsibility for the consequences of his actions. Pathetic. The saddest political legacy for him.
There is no agony of broken limbs, bullet through the heart or families
torn apart in Iraq - millions and in the UK who bore the brunt of this
ill fated adventure. There were more bombs even more devastating that
those dropped in Vietnam. Have they not learned? The only agony he now
faces is the ill gotten wealth that he has accumulated that could be
subject to sequestration. There is no agony in his face, only fear that
his worst nightmares are about to begin.
Not true. He is a human being who has to live with a controversial decision that he made that led to millions of deaths. His own wealth and freedom is not at risk at all, only his conscience and reputation. People need to stop talking about politicians as if they are different to every other person on the planet. It's not fair, and even more importantly, not true.
U are spot on my friend👍
@@alexrothwell2053 Well since he spent half his time here justifying his actions he doesn't seem that remorsefull, especially considering some of the statements he makes.
British politicians lecturing other nations is the massive glass house and throwing a rock at it
Did he ever receive his Oscar?
Don't trust this Madman.
U see more lies!!! Wen will ppl wake up
Virtue signalling comment.
Why is it taking so long to send this murderer to prison with orange suit
sadako24 justice for what where is the WMD , now North Korea , Iran Pakistan and many other countries have WMD why can't these rascals go regime change in these countries countries
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 🙏
Dr David Kelly was the first of many sacrificed for this monster's ego.
Ah, this takes me back to my old college days!
This is the man who dare not walk the streets of his own country without his bodyguards ! What price fame and fortune ? Blair and bush 🤮☠️
No worries ‘lessons were learnt’ 🤪
Reasonable comments from Blair. I can understand much better his point of view now.
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
So much blood for a pack of lies
Iraq is much worse today sadam was better than today most people say i wouldn't want to go to any of those places
when will he be sent to prison for war crimes
He won't. War crimes only cover battlefield atrocities.
Blair witch project
Why is his voice about 5 octaves higher? It sounds like he's zipped his flies up and caught something.
it's the pressure!!!
sympathy tactic.
Interesting, because as a woman, if threatened my voice goes really deep... Probably fight or flight, he knew he was under threat.
Killer
For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
Great question at 1:20!!
WMD??????
I pray he lives for more than 150 years.. so he can feel the pain and suffering of losing his loved ones ..
That is just dumb...
This reminds me of dog poo but with arms legs and a head.
Too late Mr Blair huge amount of life's lost
Some future leader needs to create an enquiry and every Britain needs to punish this vile man
Lies and proper gander
LOL saying that Saddam was a threat to peace.. hahahahahahahahahaha
What's funny about that?
Academically speaking, removing Saddam Hussein was probably justified, but the practical handling in the aftermath was appalling. Unleashed millennia-old tribal, religious divides... and that's what killed so many, not Western forces per se. The religious lunatics who mutilated Iraq must also take some responsibility.
GLOKD It was because of the insurgency that ruined everything.
Blah Blah Blur Blurr Blurr ….another beauty !
It's easy for all these people and pundits to be critical. There was only ONE Prime Minister at that time. He had a decision to make and as a leader, that is what he did.
funny thing is, Mr Blair, despite everything, would probably be far more electable than Jeremy Corbyn!
not in my book
45 minutes, Leeroy Jenkins, death of David Kelly
38 million refugees
After all the lies , errors and deceptions this man say he does not regret his actions and holds himself responsible: capital punishment sounds reasonable, if not life imprisonment !
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!
The beginning of the end for the LABOUR PARTY, good riddance🤢.
ye with 25 point lead in the polls
Evil murder still at large
This war criminal was made a night my the queen. Unbelievable.
...and I made an absolute fortune out of it!
He's trying not to cry can anyone else see this
craig shaw he looks fine.
Yes
Tony tells lies fluently
Nuclear program did not exist, according to Collin Powell 24th February 2001 said in Cairo, Eygpt. "We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq...
your country did not make better,because the U.K. government put their hands in the Ukraine war...
"...Influence the world the way we want..."
Truth in plain sight. Blair wants to avoid karmic retribution
tbh wish he was back as pm
Likewise. The country would be in such a better state.