Will Tony Blair Be Ever Brought to Justice? http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/28/will-tony-blair-be-ever-brought-to-justice/

Once the international tribunal delivered its verdict for the former President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, Western political and media circles have been ecstatic. The verdict was greeted with particular enthusiasm by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who stated that war crimes shouldn’t go unpunished. The US Department of State also commented on the sentencing on the former president but underlying that the US will not forget the horrors of genocide in Bosnia and other crimes against humanity.

In this respect, while talking about the Western truth-seekers and pro-democracy fighters that are declaring their willingness to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes, I would like to recall those war criminals who have remained virtually unpunished over the years. In particular, those who committed their crimes against humanity, including mass slaughter of civilians and the creation of widespread hunger and poverty that followed their adventurous armed interventions of the US and UK forces in Iraq.

In sharp contrast, there is little to no interest displayed by Western authorities in the investigation of the causes and reasons behind aggression against Iraq, both Americans and the British people are genuinely interested in finding those responsible for leading this catastrophic war. In particular, American citizens still fail to understand why their government decided to bring the Iraqi state down, which is stated by a number of Western sources openly. The White House, along with former-British Prime Minister Tony Blair deliberately misled the international community and their own citizens into believing that Saddam Hussein’s regime represented a major threat to the world, while in reality all Western politicians craved for was to establish control over Iraqi oil fields. As a result, the United Kingdom and the United States invaded Iraq in direct violation of international law back in 2003, which resulted in the destruction of this secular state which was subsequently turned into an area of continuous violence and bloodshed.

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