Neil Harding -LABOUR-SUPPORTER

Some Myths about New Labour dispelled.

Blair is responsible for the Iraq War and the civilians who have died there.

With or without Blair's decision to support Bush over Iraq, the Iraq War was going to happen. In fact there is an argument that British involvement has reduced casualties, because UK soldiers had a much better relationship (at least at first) with the Iraqi civilians than did the more trigger happy US soldiers.

Blair does bear responsibility for the deaths of British soldiers but these were volunteer soldiers not conscripts. You shouldn't join the army if you don't want to fight in wars. Any soldier could have refused to go, it was their decision...

I...hoped that Blair had some hidden reason to justify his support of Bush (I still hope this will come out in the future) and that his support would garner some influence in other policy areas like climate change and debt cancellation. We do know that Blair stopped Bush bombing Al Jazeera, which would have been a terrible inflamation of the conflict and has probably saved many lives there, so that is some comfort. Blair's success in getting other concessions out of Bush's regime seems scant to say the least. We will have to wait and see to judge whether Blair's decision will have saved lives in the long term.

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