Salma Yacoob, When Tony blair led the UK into war with Iraq, do you believe he was representing the will of the people of the UK? How do you feel about him as Middle East Peace Envoy?
Asked by keithwhu on Aug 20 2007 12:19:03 PM and supported by 27 members
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No I don’t think he was representing the will of the British people. The majority of British people were opposed to the war. The anti-war demonstration on February 15th 2003 was the biggest protest in 2,000 years of British history. The comments from Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain's ambassador to Washington at the time, in his book DC Confidential, that Blair was ‘seduced’ by US power seems to me much closer to the point as to whose interests he was more concerned about. It is difficult to believe that he will be taken seriously as a Middle East envoy in view of his uncritical stance to US and Israeli policy and his support for their invasion of Iraq and attack on Lebanon.