Tony Blair should face trial over Iraq war, says Desmond Tutu
Source: Guardian
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.
Tutu, a Nobel peace prizewinner and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, accuses the former British and US leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction and says the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided "than any other conflict in history".
Writing in the Observer, Tutu also suggests the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran.
"The then leaders of the United States and Great Britain," Tutu argues, "fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/02/tony-blair-iraq-war-desmond-tutu
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Don't want to lose any of our good ol' national sovereignty, you know. Can't have foreigners prosecuting our American criminals. Got to admit that republicans were smart to keep us out of the Court since it is largely them that would be subject to its prosecution. 
It came out during Bush's 2nd term & is a bit dated now (it has Hillary Clinton as the president after Bush), but it is an amusing take on how Blair gets set up to be the only one who takes the fall for Iraq. It's funny, but makes the point very well.
-- SPOILER ALERT - DON'T READ ANYTHING FROM THIS POINT ON IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT THE MOVIE (though even knowing probably wouldn't hurt you enjoyment of it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Tony_Blair
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The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical drama, based around the notion that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, it was first aired on More4 on 15 January 2007 and repeated on 5 March 2007 and during Blair's last week as Prime Minister on 23 June 2007.
The programme is set in 2010 and stars Robert Lindsay as Tony Blair, Phoebe Nicholls as Cherie Blair, Peter Mullan as Gordon Brown and Alexander Armstrong as David Cameron....
...To compound his problems, the International Criminal Court is looking to bring war crimes charges against the UK and US leaders in relation to the Iraq War. Now that Tony Blair is no longer Prime Minister, he no longer has diplomatic immunity from prosecution, and since George Bush cannot be prosecuted due to America's policy of not extraditing former Presidents (which even Hillary Clinton is unwilling to break), Blair would become the main scapegoat of any such trial. Gordon Brown is initially uncertain of what to do, having conflicting feelings on his time as Blair's ally, but his hand is ultimately forced when he is informed that nearly a dozen Labour MPs have threatened to defect to the Liberal Democrats, which would be more than enough to reduce Labour to a minority government and likely lead to them being toppled in a vote of no confidence within a matter of weeks.
The United Nations Security Council votes on the decision to bring Tony Blair to court. Ordinarily, this would not have been an issue as the UK, a permanent member of the UNSC, would have been able to veto the resolution. Unfortunately for Blair, under orders from Gordon Brown's assistant, the British UNSC representative is "in the toilet" when the resolution is voted on. The resolution passes, with all other UNSC members (including the United States, under Hillary Clinton, following the "peace path" voting in favour.
Under the stress of events, Blair suffers a recurrence of heart problems, but everybody (including Gordon Brown who visits him in hospital) believes this is play-acting. The programme ends with Tony Blair being flown to his trial in The Hague.
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