Tony Blair: War Is Peace

April 17, 2010 (LPAC)—Today, as he did just seven years ago, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair used the "peacekeeping" functions of the UN Security Council and his control over the White House, to plunge the United States into an unnecessary war. Britain's Chilcot inquiry and other investigations have confirmed that George W. Bush's actions leading to his 2003 Iraq invasion were taken under the advice of Blair and his underlings, and particularly that the path to war through the UN Security Council was entirely dictated by the Blair government. Now, again, as he marches robot-like into a much more serious war, this time with Iran, Blair's puppet Obama is being instructed to misuse the UN Security Council to bring about a war.

Thus, Russian President Medvedev showed that he sensed that UN sanctions resolutions were actually being used to bring on a war, when he said at Brookings on April 13, "Many times I have asked these questions, what kind of sanctions we need. I do not favor paralyzing, crippling sanctions, make people suffer in a humanitarian sense. This is immoral and it creates negative results, negative feedback, and I have grounds to believe that some people need (want?) this. They are waiting for a real clash of positions, but sanctions must be intelligent."

In fact, the "sanctions" proposed at the United Nations by supposed U.S. Ambassador and actual British agent Susan Rice, which include license for any navy to forcibly board Iranian ships at sea, constitute in and of themselves an act of war.

When Blair spoke at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs on April 24, 2009, on the tenth anniversary of his "Doctrine of the International Community" speech at the same location, he called for a world military struggle against Iran modelled on the struggle against "communism." "The struggle faced by the world... is posed by an extreme and misguided form of Islam. And there are elements in the leadership of a major country, namely Iran, that can support and succor its practitioners.... [We must] expose, too, the delusion of believing that there is any alternative to waging this struggle to its conclusion. It is time to wrench ourselves out of a state of denial." This is a war which is "akin to fighting revolutionary communism.... We have to fight where we are being fought against.... Where we are called on to fight, we have to do it."

When Blair was called before Britain's Chilcot Inquiry on Jan. 29 of this year to defend the lies he used to launch the Iraq War, he told the hearing that the Iraq war had been necessary, even if there were no weapons of mass destruction, in order to prepare the world for the coming war with Iran. Rather than defend himself, he bragged of his crimes, and took every opportunity to preach war with Iran. And if anything had gone wrong in Iraq, he bore no responsibility—it was all due to Iranian interference.

Obama's so-called Nuclear Security Summit on April 12-13 was mainly an opportunity for Obama to personally knock the skulls of world leaders to try to force them into backing these UN "sanctions" leading to war. Immediately after Obama's meeting with Malysia's Prime Minister there, Malaysia announced that it had ceased shipping refined petroleum products to Iran in March!

After Obama's pressures and threats against him, Brazil's President Lula Inacio da Silva was appropriately hysterical about what he understood correctly as a drive to war. Prior to his bilateral meeting with China's President Hu Jintao on April 15 in Brasilia, Lula told the press that the Iraq war had been launched because of "weapons which society was induced to believe existed. I don't want this to be repeated with Iran." But the fact that the setting was a meeting of the BRIC helped keep the focus on Washington, and Lula didn't dare say that the Iraq lies had all originated with Tony Blair. It is very revealing of the lies Obama is retailing today, that the Brazil newspaper O Globo added that Lula planned to tell Hu that "the argument used by the White House, that Israel could lose patience and attack Iran, is groundless, since ... Israel would not attack without U.S. consent."