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Why Blair will never say sorry

Hopes for repentance or punishment from the Chilcot Inquiry will be frustrated: Blair is deluded and the I

I woke up with good intentions last Friday morning - Blair appearing at the Chilcot Inquiry, 10 o'clock; but four hours later, I had to give up. Where was this going? This inquiry is a PR exercise that seeks the intangible goals of ‘learning lessons’ and ‘improving processes.’

We know what happened, and we know that there is no way Blair could be held accountable for ‘war crimes’ under the legal definition, yet the public seem to be waiting for some admission of guilt, some sense of closure that seems unlikely to arrive.
What we can draw from Blair’s appearance is that he is the only person in Britain who does not seek this closure. Those hoping for an emotive apology, some sense of regret, must have been bitterly disappointed. The public have overlooked the fact that from 9/11 onwards, Blair switched from adoration-seeking spinner-in-chief to a ‘Conviction Politician.’ He is not a malicious war-mongering demon, but a zealot, so sure he was doing the right thing that mere facts must not stand in his way. Throughout the Hutton Inquiry, and… Continue reading...