Iraq under the very unpleasant (to western minds) dictator Saddam Hussein was the most prosperous and secular on muslim states in the middle east until Saddam fell out with the USA. The first Gulf War of 1991 and sanctions that followed ruined Iraqi prosperity but the people remained loyal to Saddam until the Bush administration, aided by the British Labour government of Tony Blair invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam. Since then the nation has slid into dystopian chaos and has now broken up into tribal and sectarian mini states
Read full post on Blair justifying his bloody war
So is Blair trying to be a bigger comedian than Obama who recently told Tumblr users that the world has never been less violent or more tolerant than it is right now. Yeah right Barry, hows that DARPA project to create genetically modified pigs with wings coming on. (Meanwhile on another planet)