The movement added, “it’s a kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and a kick in the teeth for all the people who protested against the war in Iraq and who have been proved right”.Īs much as the title is ceremonial, nevertheless, it means the British public and media should refer to him as “Sir Tony” which brings about a sense of privilege for a man who will now undoubtedly believe that his reputation has been re-established. We have Iraq in a terrible state now, nearly 20 years after the invasion”. We have 8 million people on the edge of starvation in Afghanistan now. The anti-war movement says “it’s pretty incredible given that this year, we’ve seen the collapse of Afghanistan, which Tony Blair’s first major war. This is while Britain’s Stop the War Coalition has described the decision to award Blair with knighthood as a “kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan”. For more than two years now hundreds of doctors have repeatedly demanded Assange be released to a university teaching hospital or freed warning that he may otherwise die in prison. The journalist’s legal and human rights have been trampled on. Labour MP Richard Burgon has written on social media that “It says a lot about what is wrong with our system when, after being one of the leading architects of the Iraq war, Tony Blair is honored with a knighthood while Julian Assange, who exposed war crimes in Iraq, faces extradition to the USA and a lifetime in prison.”Īssange who many analysts and pundits say should be awarded has been languishing for more than one thousand days in his continuous incarceration at Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison. The rest of his time, he has been receiving as much money as possible from extremely authoritarian regimes and dictators in exchange for “advice”.Īs Blair went on to live a comfortable life, making tens of millions of dollars in “appearances”, those who exposed war crimes in Iraq would be and continue to be punished. We petition the prime minister to petition Her Majesty to have this honor removed.”įollowing Blair’s departure from office, he has been accused of being amazingly pathetic in his role as a “peace envoy” in West Asia. Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honor, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen. "For this alone, he should be held accountable for war crimes. He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives and servicemen in various conflicts”. The petition, which has surpassed one million signatures, says Blair "caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation's society. had undermined the authority of the United Nations Security Council the process of identifying the legal basis was “far from satisfactory” and war was unnecessary.īlair’s critics describe the former British Premier as a war criminal who has the blood of one million Iraqis on his hand and should be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the international criminal court. Indeed the conclusions of Chilcott inquiry into the Iraq war states: at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein did not pose an urgent threat to British interests intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction was presented with “unwarranted certainty” peaceful alternatives to war had not been exhausted the UK and the U.S. Nobody wanted the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to stay in power, but an invasion of the country and destroying its entire infrastructure alongside the suffering of almost every single Iraqi to this day was certainly not the way to go about removing Saddam. Blair’s decision to side with Bush and play a major role in waging the war was unspeakably a catastrophic one in every aspect you look at it.
Ironically under the title of the “war on terror”, it also led to the formation of more barbaric terrorist groups that are still active in the country today.
The war led to the killing of around one million Iraqi people. Bush into the disastrous and illegal invasion of Iraq deceived the British parliament and the British public into doing so. It is perhaps not so surprising how an illegal war saw a politician go from an amazing 93 percent approval rating when he entered office in 1997 to one of the most hated public figures in the UK.Ĭritics say the man who led Britain “shoulder to shoulder” with former U.S. According to a YouGuv survey only 14% of the public approve of Blair’s knighthood. The fact that the knighthood was announced on New Year Eve, and the petition has reached such a milestone so quickly is evidence that public anger in the UK against the former Premier has not gone away.
TEHRAN- More than one million people have signed a petition calling for former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his controversial knighthood removed with the number rising literally by the minute.
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