Monday, May 14, 2007

Johann Hari: Blair's legacy lies in the Baghdad morgue


As one who made an equally foolish misjudgement, I've some insight on how his thinking went so wrong
Published: 14 May 2007

As the crowd clapped along to the old back-to-the-Nineties tune of "Things Can Only Get Better" in Trimdon Labour Club, awaiting Tony Blair's swansong, there was a bleaker postscript to the Blair years piling up half a world away.

In Baghdad morgue, these days they separate out the hundreds of Shia bodies and Sunni bodies that are dumped on them every day. It's easy to do: the Shia have been beheaded, while the Sunnis have been tortured to death with power-drills. continue...

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