I thought Bush had that ground pretty well covered, but Blair is now getting defensive about his role in the miserably failed war in Iraq. It's no wonder he has dragged the entire Labour Party down since he is as out of touch with reality as Bush and Cheney.
"No American general ... was given the accountable responsibility to make sure that the first duty of any government — and we were the government — was to keep law and order on the streets," Greenstock said. "There was a vacuum from the beginning into which the looters, the saboteurs, the criminals, the insurgents, moved very quickly."Touchy, touchy. There is a considerable difference between thinking about a problem and acting on those thoughts. Blair was all too happy to charge into war with Bush but despite the rumors (that his own team no doubt started) that he was there to moderate Bush, he did nothing and still has nothing to show for his supposed efforts. Combined they all convinced themselves that flowers would be welcoming them and that somehow things would all just take shape the way Chalabi and the neocons said it would. Guess again.
Blair rejected suggestions that U.S.-led coalition forces were unprepared for the invasion's aftermath, particularly the sectarian violence, in a BBC radio interview.
"When we removed Saddam and his police and army, of course part of the establishment of repression, then we had to rebuild it," Blair said. "Where I don't agree with Jeremy is that no one was thinking about rebuilding it. We actually were."
