What struck me about Tony Blair’s “analysis” of the situation is just how easily he is prepared to lie and deliberately misinform.
Like a psychopath who fails to distinguish right from wrong Tony Blair appears to make no distinction between reality and his own little fantasy world of lies.
The whole piece is a concoction of lies and deliberate and calculated misinformation from start to finish, but probably one of the most barefaced and easily disproved lie is this comment he makes :
“What we now know from Syria is that Assad, without any detection from the West, was manufacturing chemical weapons. We only discovered this when he used them.”
Syria has had chemical weapons for decades (it initially required them to redress the balance with nuclear-armed Israel – their version of the MAD doctrine) Everyone knew that Syria had chemical weapons, even I, a building worker from Croydon with no access to classified information knew that Syria had chemical weapons, and long before the “Arab Spring”.
So you would have thought that the “Middle East Peace Envoy” with his keen interest in Middle Eastern political affairs and “potential threats from WMDs” would have known that Syria had chemical weapons. He only had to pick a newspaper such as the Daily Telegraph and read all about. From before the Arab Spring :
Syria ‘rebuilding’ chemical weapons capability
Quote :
Syria has maintained stockpiles of chemical weapons, including Sarin gas and blister agents, for decades. But satellite images from two operators, GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, appeared to show significant efforts to update known facilities.
Of course Tony Blair knew just like everyone else that Assad had chemical weapons long before they were allegedly used, but saying “We only discovered this when he used them” fits in nicely into the point he’s trying to make and he’s not going to let the fact that it’s a complete lie spoil his argument.
The rest of his drivel can be equally demolished but he lacks credibility so much that it’s really not worth the effort imo. Sufficient to just say that the tosser is an unrepentant warmonging liar of psychopathic proportions.