Blair 'cried for Iraq war victims'

[Peter Presland]

WARNING:
Have sick-bag at the ready before reading [URL="http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2010/09/20109183124378690.html"]this from Al Jazeera:
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Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, said he did not foresee the "nightmare" that unfolded in Iraq and wept for the war's victims, in memoirs released on Wednesday.
The war-time leader repeated his conviction that the 2003 invasion was justified, but said he regretted "with every fibre of my being the loss of those who died".
"I feel words of condolence and sympathy to be entirely inadequate," Blair wrote in his book, entitled A Journey.
"They have died and I, the decision-maker in the circumstances that led to their deaths, still live."
Citing his work as a Middle East peace envoy and promoting inter-faith dialogue, he said: "I can't say sorry in words; I can only hope to redeem something from the tragedy of death, in the actions of a life, my life, that continues still."

Got that??

"with every fibre of my being"

I'm speechless! - angry, totally pissed off at what that bastard is allowed to get away with - but otherwise bloody speechless!! :puke:

[Magda Hassan]

He may well have cried for his victims but he laughed all the way to the bank.

[Magda Hassan]

Blair laughs off claim he plagiarised Queen meeting

Tony Blair said he had never seen the film
Tony Blair has laughed off suggestions he plagiarised an account of his first audience with the Queen from a film version of the meeting.
In his memoirs Mr Blair recalls the Queen telling him: "You are my tenth prime minister. The first was Winston. That was before you were born."
Those words are very similar to those used in the 2006 Oscar-winning film The Queen.
Scriptwriter Peter Morgan suggested Mr Blair confused reality with that film.
Mr Morgan suggested that Mr Blair had either chosen to endorse the film version, or had had "one gin and tonic too many and confused the scene in the film with what had actually happened".
Mr Blair said he had never seen the film, however.
He said: "I hope Peter Morgan is being tongue-in-cheek about this. I can't believe that they would have written the movie without talking to somebody," he told BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo Drivetime.
"I have told this story many times because I always think it's quite a funny story."
He added, laughing: "Are you suggesting I plagiarised it from the film?
"I don't think that it is terribly odd because, as I say, it is a story that I have often told so maybe someone heard it and said it to him, but it is what happened."