Hatred for Blair after big mistakes
Politicians, by description, will always make mistakes. This, to a certain degree, is acceptable, as no one is infallible.
Some make more than others, and most are forgiven as they redeem themselves by instigating other policies that are for the national good.
A good example is Churchill. In the First World War Churchill pushed for the landings in the Dardanelles, the consequences of the Gallipoli campaign were disastrous, the Anzac’s suffered major losses and it failed.
In the Second World War, he again pushed for an attack at Dieppe, this too was a total disaster. The British public had grave misgivings on his leadership, but allowed him to lead them to victory, and he was many years later posthumously voted Briton’s greatest living Englishman. His profile is seen on crown pieces, and the American navy has a warship named ‘USS Winston S Churchill’, no greater compliment can be bestowed on any man.
Then we have Tony Charles Lynton Blair, who took the British military into a lie of a war that has subsequently escalated into a European-wide religious bloodbath, resulting in unarmed civilians targeted by anti-western Islamic zealots. The death of Dr David Kelly has not been explained to any satisfactory degree, his links to the non-discovery of WMD are fundamental to a universally-held belief, that Tony Blair is a war criminal, with no redeeming features.
Scrolling through the threads and forums of the Army rumour service (ARRSE), I came across ‘Epitaph for Tony Blair’ and I was astonished on the level of hate and contempt directed at one politician. As stated, all political types make mistakes, whether be deliberate, falsifying expense accounts, or getting their sums wrong, i.e. Dianne Abbott, but the level of vindictive malice and vitriol shown I have only seen directed to the likes of Hitler and his ilk.
Unlike Churchill, this egoistical champagne socialist has no redeeming features. His wife also has some unsavoury comments attributed to her. There is not one comment or sentence that has anything good to say on his behalf. I fully understand the hate felt by the military community past and present.
Tony Levy, Wednesfield
