John, even a scoundrel can show some courage, and on Iraq Blair did, at least abroad (his appeasement of Islamic extremism at home is an entirely different question). But lets look at the bigger picture. Blair lied his way into office, he’s consistently lied while in office and he will, doubtless, be well-paid on the American lecture circuit for lying about his time in office once it’s over. He has vandalized the economy, trashed the British constitution and (sometimes it seems) rarely encountered a liberty he didn’t want to end. He has packed the legislature’s upper house with his cronies (the long overdue democratic reform of that chamber has been, um, ‘postponed’), made a mockery of the tradition of civil service impartiality and has repeatedly tried to push Britain into a relationship with the EU that would effectively destroy the alliance with the US. And there’s plenty more…

Under the circumstances, “disgusting” seems to be rather mild.

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