'Intervene in Iraq and Syria or Britain will face terror attacks': Blair warns UK sho

[super jumbe]

The former Prime Minister said the UK needed to intervene to stop a 'total disaster'. He insisted that he was not calling for troops on the ground - but suggested the 'selective use of air power' was one option on the table.

Mr Blair said: 'If we don't deal with the Syria issue then the problems are not just going to be for Syria and for the region, the problems are actually going to come back and they are going to hit us very directly even in our own country.'

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show Mr Blair said an ISIS victory would be a 'total disaster and it mustn't be allowed to happen'.

He said: 'We are going to have to engage with it and if we don't then the consequences will come back on us.'

Speaking to the Murnaghan show on Sky later, he added: 'The people who are dealing with are going to pull us into this whether we like it or not.

'We are going to have to take an active role in Syria or Iraq in shaping events.'

He said Britain should 'support' the United States if they take military action in Iraq. 'It's in our interest to stop these jihadists.'
'They are prepared to fight us and they will if they are not stopped,' he added.

But Mr Blair's intervention was slammed by critics of his 2003 decision to take Britain to war against Iraq.

The former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott said: 'He says he?s disappointed with what has happened in Iraq, it wasn't as he thought it might happen, but he wants to invade somewhere else now.'He accused Mr Blair of wanting to force western democracy on to Arab countries

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658303/Intervene-Iraq-Syria-face-terror-attacks-Britain-warns-Blair-defends-decision-topple-Saddam.html

[ifred]

I'm quite happy to send dear old Tony over there with a potato gun and catapult to help them see sense.
Seems he's an expert ...well he's a middle east peace envoy, should be the man for the job

[Meat-Head]

*CONFUSED*

so for simplify purposes, we have two boys fighting, one has a stick, so instead of taking the stick off one, the naybours has given the other kid a stick?, yeah?


but there not your problem, but if you don't break the fight up, the mom of one if the kids will send their dawg found to shit on your lawn.

right or wro ng????

[super jumbe]

Come to think Blai could be making sense, Bus and Blai tried to give the Iraqi peoples peace, freedom and liberal to democracy, I think Blai was right lets give him the Kalashnikov gun and his son a rocket launcher to go and finish the job our army failed.

[smirnoff_rules]

so Blair is blaming Syria now ? he and bush start a useless war where our lads died for nothing in the end and because he cant pat himself on the back he moves
on the Syria , its all there fault now ? ,, the sunni's were in power in the 80's because we put them there and they were the minority , we trained the iraq army and said time to get out and they we never up for the job , they only took the army jobs because it was the only paid job out there ,,

wot a badly planed disaster again

[GastonJ]

You also have to remember that the 'West' has been arming the Syrian 'rebels' for some time to fight Assad. Since they aren't getting anywhere with fighting Assad they've headed south instead. Similar to arming the Afghan rebels who were fighting the Russians in the 1980's. Now didn't that turn out well.

[hypersonic]

Blair rant

Blair is a total hypocrite asking the UK to get involved again. Why us? Where does the rest of the world stand on this Syria/Iraq problem? The long term effects will be felt as far away as Austrialia, China, Malasia and the far east. Why are we the only country that thinks there is a problem with militant fundamentalist Islamic ideology. It's long term aim is there for everybody to see. Total world domination, Sharia law and death to all christians, and non believers. The abolition of womens human rights and death by stoning of they don't obey. What started in the Birmingham schools is only the start of slow islamification of UK. They will argue that their human rights have been breached as their religion forbids females sit next to or mix with males. In fact, their religious leaders do not want females to work, receive an education, drive a car and wear anything more revealing than a bell tent with eye holes. This is a threat to the whole free world, not just to the UK and the west. When is the rest of the world going to stand up and be counted.

[Meat-Head]

CONFUSED.

cant their ISP block ALL access to DK, from their end, within 2 hours of no dk access, the storm will be over

[super jumbe]

CONFUSED.

cant their ISP block ALL access to DK, from their end, within 2 hours of no dk access, the storm will be over

Any 1 would have thought of that, they use ecu off crack version!!!

[gopher7]

If there's terror attacks in Britain it will be because we've intervened, not because we didn't. That Blair is totally mad, lock him up so we'll all be safe. [emoji35]

[Kalipo]

Send him to the tower.. Death by firing squad..

The remove all benefits his wife has and send her for a face lift to fix that mess off a face she has.. then hang her in the tower..

War mongering twerts..

[GastonJ]

Easier answer, when some prime minister and his cabinet decides to send our forces out to another country to die the government should have to be there as well all the time the forces are there. Bet they won't want to involve themselves in any warmongering then to try make a name for themselves to get re-elected.

[ifred]

Easier answer, when some prime minister and his cabinet decides to send our forces out to another country to die the government should have to be there as well all the time the forces are there. Bet they won't want to involve themselves in any warmongering then to try make a name for themselves to get re-elected.

I'm afraid its a long time since the leaders, lead from the front!
These days their back at home counting the cash and betting on both sides

[Canker_Canison]

Due to my requirement for getting out of bed early recently. I found myself watching early morning TV, 'breakfast shows' I think they call them.

On this particular day they were covering the Isis invasion of Iraq. Their guest was one of the Prof types from a university somewhere unimportant. But he was saying that the language used in the Un-coroborrated Isis video points more towards trouble for Jordan & SAE than the west. He translated the meaning of some words to mean 'their state' as a goal. So they just want their own piece of land where they can cut off hands & execute people for saying Jehovah (oops, wrong film)

[GastonJ]

They appear to want a massive chunk of land by the looks of it Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Wipe out the Shia, that's why Iran is starting to get very interested, being mostly Shias. The 'west' (mainly the US from what I understand) armed ISIS to fight Assad like the cking idiots they are. The US really do like to interfere in sh*t when they're not wanted. When ISIS weren't getting anywhere fighting Assad they moved south into Iraq, normal thing to do I suppose.

Problem for the US (and the rest of the west) is that if the US 'help' it will also be helping Iran and Syria to fight them - that'll be why the US is standing back. Bigger problem for the US is that Iran may well help out Iraq and so both Iran and Iraq may well have the view that the US armed ISIS on purpose. Can't win eh.

Wait until they've all kicked the crap out of each other and are busy celebrating then just napalm the cking lot off the planet in one foul swoop. *shrug*