Tony Blair Admits Iraq War Led To Rise Of ISIS, Apologizes For "Mistakes".

THE GALLOWS GHOST

  

If, there’s one lesson "THE WESTERN WORLD" simply refuses to learn when it comes to Mid-East foreign policy; it’s that forcibly removing autocrats invariably leads to chaos.

Not to say that promoting democratic principles and encouraging government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” isn't somehow a noble pursuit at the theoretical level. It’s simply to say that real political change must be completely organic and cannot be brought about via military intervention or by covert attempts to support popular uprisings. 

Importantly, this principle applies in countries where the seeds for change have already been sown.

That is, you must let the process play out on its own, even if the ball is already rolling.

You cannot, for instance, say something like this: “well, there are popular uprisings against someone we believe to be a dictator and so, because the populace clearly wants change, we’ll go in and accelerate the process by fomenting discord.” 

That Strategy Will Not Work. 

The people are just as likely as not to view outside interference as stemming from ulterior motives and the regime is just as likely as not to become even more dictatorial than it already was in the face of what will inevitably be perceived as foreign meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state. 

The results of implementing this type of failed strategy are everywhere apparent in the Mid-East. There’s Libya, which is now a war-torn wasteland in the wake of Gaddafi’s death. There’s Egypt, where the confusion that reigned during the Arab Spring cornered the US into supporting the rise of Mohamed Morsi only to see his government overthrown in a counter coup that eventually installed Mubarak’s former head of military intelligence Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Presidency. There’s Syria, where efforts on the part of Washington, Ankara, Riyadh, and Doha to destabilize the Assad regime have led to a bloody civil war that’s left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. And of course there’s Iraq, which the US and Britain invaded on false pretences only to see the country careen into chaos following Saddam’s ouster.

Now, former British PM Tony Blair is finally out with an apology for his country’s role in Iraq, and although he stops short of saying that removing Saddam was a mistake, he does admit that there were no weapons of mass destruction and that the presence of the United Kingdom and  of the United States of the Americas did contribute to the rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq which, if you believe the narrative, led directly to the birth of ISIS:

Now, of course obviously, the story of how ISIS became what it is today in the wake of al-Zarqawi's death is shrouded in CIA secrecy and we'll likely never know the whole story, but there's certainly a deep connection with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the establishment of which owes much to the Western invasion.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he's sorry for "MISTAKES" (to use the words “ LIES” could get him and George W Bush both  hanged; as they undoubtedly should have been; BEFORE OR WITH Saddam Hussein)both made in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. But , again, of course, he claims he doesn't regret bringing down dictator. "I can say that I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong because, even though he had allegedly (never proven;  Hussein was hanged because HE LEGITIMATELY  but once again only allegedly; ordered th deaths of less than 200 militant, terrorist, insurgents; who had again rebelled against his LEGITIMATE government) used chemical weapons extensively against his own people, against others, the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought. 

Not only did Tony Blair and the Wanna be Push George Bush not find any weapons of mass destruction; they did not find any or the ruins of any of the TEN STORY DEEP BUNKERS(supposedly, they knew the location of and had the building plans for); NEVER HAVING DECLARED WAR bunkers they had been attempting to bomb, and destroy for MONTHS. 

Does this, perhaps remind you a little of "PEARL HARBOUR? Have you ever wondered what it was all those "bunker buster"cruise missiles really destroyed or were INTENDED to destroy? 

The ensuing war and dismantling of Saddam's government plunged Iraq into chaos, resulting in years of deadly sectarian violence, and the rise of al Qaeda in Iraq, a precursor of ISIS. 

Tens of thousands of Iraqis, more than 4,000 U.S. troops and 179 British service members were killed in the lengthy conflict ( LONGEST WAR IN MODERN HISTORY).

Blair said that besides the flawed Iraq intelligence, he apologizes "for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime."

In the name of TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE NORTH AMERICAN WAY; Canada and now France; has been finding out; as well.~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan.