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Tony Blair: God helped me with Iraq
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by mudricky | April 10, 2009 at 09:14 am
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Recently converted Catholic, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United kingdom told BBC radio recently his religious beliefs helped him with the mental decision of invading Iraq and puting UK lives in danger so Saddam Hussein could be taken out of power.
He said: “I say the responsibility lies with the people doing the terrorism because there’s no reason for them to.”
TONY Blair has told how his belief in God gave him the courage to launch the war on Iraq.
The ex-PM said his religious belief provided the “comfort” he needed to oust Saddam Hussein.
He told BBC radio he still thinks about his decision to send in UK troops every day.
But he raged against al-Qaeda terrorists for wreaking carnage in post-war Iraq.
He said the view that the bloodshed since the end of the war was due to the invasion had to be challenged.
He said: “I say the responsibility lies with the people doing the terrorism because there’s no reason for them to.”
Mr Blair — who converted to Catholicism after leaving No10 in 2007 - also told of his first spiritual experience at age ten after his atheist father had a stroke.
He prayed with his headteacher who said God believed in his dad, who survived.
He added: “It made a tremendous impact on me.”
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at 13:58 on April 10th, 2009
Bush had the similar god experince which he used to attack iraq. bit chilling that our leaders are using the same taliban philosophy of waging a holy war against their opponents as a religious duty.
at 14:00 on April 10th, 2009
very good and thought provoking post though.
I must come clean here because I voted for labor as a gesture of support for Iraq war at that time when he was PM. becuase I belived that an Iraq free of Sadam will be better for its own people who had suffered so much of his voilence for years
at 16:09 on April 10th, 2009
Interesting, whatever he needs to believe I suppose.
at 07:36 on April 11th, 2009
This whole God made me do it crap is just as applicable to any other fanatic. It brings back memories of the statement attributed to Billy Graham during the Vietnam 'Conflict'(never a declared war) -- Kill a Commie for Christ. Pretty catchy eh?