GeorgeGalloway.com
A Prime Minister in his dotage seeks to condemn another generation of young men and women to an early grave.That’s how history should judge Tony Blair’s spine-chilling speech today. Oblivious to the catastrophe he and George Bush have already unleashed, Blair has announced his intention to fight to the last drop of many other fathers’ sons.
With an end-of-days zealotry that would draw whoops from the Republican right, he glibly affirmed that the current ‘war on terror’, which is already widening beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, is to last a generation.
The public, he declared, will need to get used to a “long campaign” against an ideological enemy that, bizarrely, he likened to the Communist movement of the early twentieth century. More...
