Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/09/05/2010-09-05_tony_blair_on_dick_cheney_he_wanted_to_remake_middle_east_after_911_invade_iraq_.html

Dick Cheney wanted to invade several Middle East nations, not just Iraq, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals in his new book.

Blair writes that the former Vice President had a goal to remake the power structure of several countries in that part of the world.

Cheney “would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it – Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.,” Blair wrote in his memoir, “A Journey.”

The former PM told Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s “This Week” that Cheney, 69, believed “the world had to be remade after September the 11th.”

“Dick was always absolutely hard-line on these things,” Blair said. “I mean, I think he would openly avow this.”

In his book, Blair writes Cheney wanted to deliver a message to nations he felt were supporting terrorists and terror organizations.

“He was for hard, hard power,” he wrote. “No ifs, no buts, no maybes. We’re coming after you so change or be changed.”

Blair didn’t exactly agree with this position, but told Amanpour that there was some merit to it.

“You can’t dismiss that Cheney view and say, well, that’s just stupid,” he said.

As an example, Blair pointed towards Iran, which has gotten much closer to obtaining nuclear weapons than Iraq’s Saddam Hussein ever did.

“Maybe if [Iran] got them, they would never use them,” he said. “But I don’t think, if I was a leader today, and certainly, this is the view I took then, I don’t think I would take the risk.”

When pressed on whether or not an invasion of the country would be necessary to stop its nuclear ambitions, Blair was reticent.

“I don’t want to see it, but I’m saying you cannot exclude it because the primary objective has got to be to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon,” Blair said.

I have to say I’m really glad this lunatic warmonger is no longer anywhere close to being in power in the US.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Pakistan was in Cheney’s crosshairs too and I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was Pakistan’s nukes that deterred the US from attacking/invading it.

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Re: Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

Invading Pakistan would have dragged China, Iran and many others into the war against United States thus it was probably not in the best interest of the US to attack Pakistan directly nevertheless, the agenda was somewhat achieved through astutely devised strategy of planting CIA and its ilk such as Blackwater/Xe inside Pakistan, moreover, at the time US was already entangled with Afghanistan and Iraq. As far as Blair is concerned he has always been an absolute American poodle.

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Re: Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

Tony Blair is a fanatic who blames islam for every problem in the world. According to his weird philosophy britian and america can do no wrong he maybe forget to read his own countries history and what britain did in africa and to indian subcontinent raped it for resources then and made its peoples enemies to each other.

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Re: Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

not sure why Tony did not say this when he was in power.
no wonder George Michael had to write a song about him.

[early_bird]

Re: Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

blair and dick both are idiots.two sides of same coin
Recently former british army chief too confirmed what a douche blair is for waging a pointless war in iraq and without concrete proof of existence of WMD'S in iraq.

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Re: Tony Blair on Dick Cheney: He wanted to invade Iraq, Syria and Iran

not sure why Tony did not say this when he was in power. no wonder George Michael had to write a song about him.

For that he needed some 'water' which he was lacking.