Operation Desert Storm - CNN Live News Coverage - Part 1. CNN - Gulf War Theme '91. Parliament gives Blair go-ahead for war. Tony Blair tonight saw off the final obstacle to UK involvement on a war with Iraq, defeating a Commons anti-war vote with a majority of 179.
A total of 217 Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and nationalist MPs voted against war, on an amendment saying the case was "not yet established", with early estimates putting the Labour rebellion at 140 - up 17 from the vote last month. The government's own motion, allowing for military action, was easily carried by 412 votes to 149. It is thought 83 Labour MPs voted against their government. And with thousands of anti-war protestors outside Westminster - and at least two interrupting the debate from the public gallery - it has proved one of the most tense and unpredictable nights in recent political history.
After the vote, Mr Blair's official spokesman urged parliament and the country to rally behind the British troops preparing for battle. Impeach Tony Blair: As Iraq burns, Parliament should put this deluded liar on trial, writes SIMON HEFFER. By Simon Heffer for the Daily Mail Published: 00:29 GMT, 17 June 2014 | Updated: 00:30 GMT, 17 June 2014 With allies of Al Qaeda running amok in Iraq and heading for Baghdad, the disastrous legacy of Britain's entanglement there with the invasion of 2003 becomes ever more blindingly obvious.
Obvious to everyone, that is, except the man who ordered it. Seven years after leaving office, and 11 years after British troops flooded across the southern border, Tony Blair continues to cause outrage and bewilderment over Iraq. Noting the eruption of the jihad there, Mr Blair professes that ‘we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that “we” have caused this. Tony Blair appeared a self-serving fantasist with blood on his hands when he was interviewed on Sky News Only a handful of American neo-conservatives, most of them discredited and seeking to protect their reputations, too, would agree with him.
Saddam Hussein was evil and vicious. Some would question Mr Blair's sanity. Outrageous U.S. Accused. Huntington's Conflicts, Fukuyama's World - NYTimes.com. My Sunday column, on Russian grand strategy and Ukrainian turmoil, doubles as the latest installment in my semi-recurring series dedicated to the idea that ours is still essentially a Francis Fukuyaman world — that is, a world in which the West’s combination of liberal cosmopolitanism and democratic capitalism has no ideological rivals worthy of the name.
To elaborate a little on that theme and its significance, let me quote from a Walter Russell Mead essay that ran in the Journal late last week, under the Fukuyama-invoking headline “Putin Knows History Hasn’t Ended”: … this episode is confirmation that the problem that has haunted Western statesmanship since 1989 is still with us. Both President Obama and the many-headed collection of committees that constitutes the decision-making apparatus of the EU believe that the end of the Cold War meant an end to geopolitics.….This is not so much an intellectual error as a political miscalculation. Global Peace Index.
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