The former UK Prime Minister Blair was at the committee talking about the decision he made that led his country to the war in Iraq. I am a bit shocked by the fact that he was not and did not say he regretted the decision. He said he was and is confident that he did the right thing, rather. Later I found out that he earned $35 million working as a consultant and lecturing. He referred to the Israel and Palestine talks, which he brokered. He has backings, namely, and politically active, alive, that is, after killing 176 UK soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis in the war and in the civil war that followed. What I thought it might proceed was that he did not know and and will not repeat it again. That was not the case. What he did say was that he tried to pass the resolution at UN and the US did not care, while France and Russia opposed it. He said the attack could have carried out nicely right before it getting too hot in the region. The committee pointed out that he should have waited for the resolution to pass.
They did not question what he got from his meeting with the former US President Bush at the Crawford Ranch, which they say is the turning point in the process of going to the war. They did not specify what the deals were, and he categorically denied that there should be no deals of that sort. The oil-drilling concessions would surely be one of the motivation that drove them to the war. He emphasized that he believed in the existence of Hussein's WMD and the readiness of his ability to use them.
If there is no reflection on the deaths or injuries of their own people, of those who stood by them, who could stand by them, or even who opposes them, then they lack in consciousness or even awareness of what they are doing -- which indeed is dangerous, in not knowing, in being listening to who does, and in letting them have the money to go through, to provoke public anger, by which to a war.
→ Speech by Dominique de Villepin at the U.N.Security Council [14 Feb 2003]
They did not question what he got from his meeting with the former US President Bush at the Crawford Ranch, which they say is the turning point in the process of going to the war. They did not specify what the deals were, and he categorically denied that there should be no deals of that sort. The oil-drilling concessions would surely be one of the motivation that drove them to the war. He emphasized that he believed in the existence of Hussein's WMD and the readiness of his ability to use them.
If there is no reflection on the deaths or injuries of their own people, of those who stood by them, who could stand by them, or even who opposes them, then they lack in consciousness or even awareness of what they are doing -- which indeed is dangerous, in not knowing, in being listening to who does, and in letting them have the money to go through, to provoke public anger, by which to a war.
→ Speech by Dominique de Villepin at the U.N.Security Council [14 Feb 2003]