About that Legacy:
I phoned an Iraqi friend in Baghdad whose family was murdered by Saddam. Like me, she supported the war because she thought anything – even an Anglo-American invasion headed by Bush – would be better than Saddam and his sons slaughtering onto the far horizon.
“Oh, is Blair going?” she said acidly. “You know, I’m more worried about the three bodies at the bottom of my street that have been there for a week now. I’m more worried about how I’m going to get through the next day without being killed. I’m really not thinking about Tony Blair. Not ever again.”
Hari further writes:
Blair knew suprisingly little about American power and its purposes. In a conversation with John Snow, he revealed he had never heard of Mohammed Mossadeq, the democratic leader of Iran who was toppled by the CIA in 1953 because he wanted to control his own country’s oil supplies. As recently as 2005, he had never even heard of the Project for a New American Century.
One friend of Blair’s recently told me she was shocked in 1997 when she saw Blair welcoming Henry Kissinger into Downing Street and lauding him as a great statesman and friend of democracy. She challenged him over it, but discovered “he just doesn’t know about this history – how the Americans toppled democratic governments in Latin America and the Middle East. He really didn’t know anything about it. It was shocking.”
And you’re telling us this now?
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