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Blair Should Take a Journey to Jail

Jodie Evans, AlterNet. September 15, 2010.

How do we bring liars like Tony Blair to justice? Continue to disrupt their lies everywhere they go.

Revealed: U.S. Military Allies in Iraq Asked Red Cross to Investigate Fallujah Birth Defects

Robert Verkaik, Independent UK. May 6, 2010.

Britain was so concerned about reports of an alarming increase in the number of babies being born with deformities that ministers asked the Red Cross to investigate.

Tony Blair testifies before Iraq war inquiry panel

NPR Online January 29, 2010.

Have Americans Traded Freedom For Security?

Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch. December 25, 2009.

According to polls, Americans support torture and don't mind that their government spies on them without obtaining warrants from a court.

Iraq-WMD Claim Came from ... a Cab Driver?

John Byrne, Raw Story. December 9, 2009.

News in the UK: Iraqi cab driver was source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

British Iraq "Withdrawal" a Microcosm of Obama's Bad Iraq Policy

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 30, 2009.

Britain ends 'combat operations' in Iraq, but, taking a cue from the U.S., London is escalating its neoliberal economic efforts and military training.

New Iraq Documents Show How the British Public Was Duped on Iraq

Ian Dunt, Politics.co.uk. March 12, 2009.

â€œIt is almost as if Tony Blair had set up an 'Excuses to go to War' Department in Downing Street."

Is Tony Blair a Terrorist? NSA Eavesdropped on Britain's Prime Minister

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. November 24, 2008.

And to think, some of us nervous nellies were concerned that the NSA might abuse its surveillance powers.

Student Activists Protest Blair, Other War Supporters

Mike Connery, AlterNet. May 27, 2008.

Can student activists hit war supporters where it hurts?

Business as Usual

Richard Blair, May 21, 2007.

Richard Blair: When mortar shells falling in the Green Zone become "business as usual", perhaps it's time to hold a going out of business sale?

Blair bows out but what will change?

Guest Blogger, May 10, 2007.

As Blair hands off to nemesis Gordon Brown, the policies on Iraq are unlikely to change and the British people are shut out of the process.

Tony Blair Finally Concedes Defeat in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. February 24, 2007.

The British Prime Minister's announced reduction in troops is an admission of what George Bush still desperately denies: defeat.