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| Blair will be remembered like Churchill: Jaafari |
| 2007-02-26 |
| British Prime Minister Tony Blair will go down in history like his World War II predecessor Winston Churchill, former Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al Jaafari told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Jafaari, who stepped down in April last year, told the British weekly that Blair’s backing for the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq will be judged comparable to Churchill standing up to Nazi Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler. He said that ousting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power would be something future generations of Britons would be “proud of.” “What Tony Blair has done in Iraq is something that is very important, and history will remind us of that. He has helped the Iraqi people to get rid of Saddam Hussein,” Jaafari said. “Unfortunately, I see the situation in the West and how they deal with the Iraqi crisis now. But future generations, I think, will see Tony Blair’s decision to get rid of Saddam Hussein in the same way as Winston Churchill got rid of Hitler.” He added: “We know that he (Saddam) had weapons of mass destruction because he used them in 1988. It is not a question of what he didn’t have, it is what he did have. That is what the proof should be.” Jaafari said he had seen no evidence that Iran was behind Shia attacks in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 The Shi'ite leprechaun (as we used to call him, somewhat affectionately, though he was not up to the very difficult task presented him) is correct, most likely. Of course, his prediction applies even more forcefully to Dubya. Bush has fallen short of the standards he set in his best days (WRT Iraq, the Paleostinians, in general), but at least he took some consequential decisions whose short-term costs have the political class in hysterics, but which will probably turn out positively even if the exploitation phase has been less than masterfully handled. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-02-26 11:28 |
| #4 It's completely astounding to me that someone like Jaafari sees the future (and understands our history) with more clarity than even the homefront politicos do. Is this scrappleface? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-02-26 10:32 |
| #3 Assuming we don't lose, of course. In which case the only "history" will be mumbled from Orcish scrolls. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-02-26 09:07 |
| #2 I think Jaafari is right, but that history will be written in a very different future to our present. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-02-26 04:39 |
| #1 Ward Churchill? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-26 03:03 |