Another Blair Interview - take a deep breath...

I recommend the bit near the beginning when Blair struggled and failed to extricate himself for responsibility for the power vacuum that allowed the insurgency to establish itself, and later on, when he got into a mess about raising troop numbers if the situation in Basra deteriorates following troop reductions. Funny how he mumbles and changes the subject when he paints himself into a corner. Also of note is the section on Blair's messianic "good/evil" dichotomy and the overall sense, implicitly accepted by Blair that he was on trial and Humphrey's was making the case for the prosecution.

Leaving the content aside, I get the impression that he’s regathered some of his composure following those truly scary tv interviews of the past few months. Medication? Or the calm serenity of a zealot who knows the game is up, but whose faith in his own righteousness is completely intact?

I joke about it, but it just isn't funny anymore. The man is clearly mentally ill, and should be sectioned as a matter of urgency.

Lack of empathy or conscience for other humans? If Tony believes he bears no responsibility then... - Check!
Poor impulse control? Well, when a man reacts to daily headlines as the guiding light in his life... Check!
Manipulative behaviour? Examples? Pick your favourite. - Check!

Conclusion - Tony Blair presents clinically as a classic psychopath.

Nooo! Please don't make me listen to it all over again. I've only just stopped beating my head on the desk after reading his email about road pricing.

As my schoolboy son would say, he's gone Egyptian again. That's in denial...

From my aged mother:

Big stick!
I had to go outside and kick the tyres of next door's car in frustration!
Assassination is too humane for him.

As an alternative to this sort of thing, that just makes steam come out of my ears these days, I can recommend Terry Wogan most mornings, when he doesn't come over all provincial-Irish-conservative with his is-it-just-mees. The Janet and John stories are worth making the switch in themselves.

Since tuning away from R4 in the mornings my blood pressure has gone down, I don't shout at inanimate electrical items in a way that reminds my spouse of her grandfather, and I feel and LOOK great! Bless you, Radio 2. Blaydiyoo.

Completely frothing, gibbering, wall-climbing, carpet-chewing mad as a march hare - 100 of thousands dead, an entire country smashed into ruins, the Iraqi environment poisoned with residue from depleted uranium ordinance, and the Great Statesman admits no responsibility. Uh-uh, not me guv. Without a doubt, the man is a sheer, utter, barking loonbag. What is the inside of his head like when he's asleep? - I`m willing to bet that it's a cross between a George Romero zombie movie and the CD 'Death Cult Armageddon` by Dimmu Borgir (extreme black metal, for the unaware), with additional FX by Gerald Scarfe.

And its not us who are trapped in the Bush-Blair dream-vision, its the poor bloody Iraqis and Afghanis.

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen...and stupidity. "

Why Ol' Tone never turns up for debates:
TB: 'The question people should be asking me is, "what do you do if they get a nuclear weapon?".
JH: 'Go on, what do you do?'.
TB: 'Well, exactly, it's a very hard question'.

And Tone's real legacy:
JH: 'that wasn't quite the question that I put to you'.
TB: 'Yeah, but, you know...pfff'.

Transcript of the bit that made me wish I was standing over him with at least a rolled up newspaper so I could smack him on the nose shouting "NO! ... NO!... BAD BLAIR"

Transcript of the bit that made me want to be standing there with at least a rolled up newspaper so I could smack him on the nose whilst shouting "NO....NO.....BAD TONY....BAAAAD!":

I also don't really like the way he snorts derisively when the interview mentions that it is anticipated that he won't be there in six months, actually perhaps I don't want to stand there with a newspaper, I want a stick, a big damn stick.

I suppose we can all dream : the nicest thing that could possibly happen to this venal, burnt-out ,piece of s..t would be that nobody pays him a nice, fat advance for his memoirs and no-one wants to hear him on the lucrative lecture circuit. In the absence of more formal justice, hitting him in the pocket would probablmy be the best punishment for him.

It was so horrible I can barely think about it.

Tony's position is:
(a) he has not made one single mistake,
(b) it's all the fault of these meddling insurgents
(c) most Iraqi's don't want to get killed by violence.

Oh, and for good measure he shed some crocodile tears for the massacred marsh arabs when Bush the First decided to withdraw his support after calling for them to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussain.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if the Beeb occasionally interviewed historians and to get the facts straight while playing clips from politicians?

The way I read it now.

Maliki has cornered Bush with his Sadr elements.

Hakim has cornered Bush with his Iranian elements.

Blair has adopted the Baker/Hamilton consensus.

Prince Harry will do a Diana.

Back to square one HATE MUSLIMS.

Nuke Iran.

It really does fisk itself doesn't it? I thought J.H. did a pretty good job. Blair was on the defensive the whole interview and was clearly struggling. He had no answers to the accusations put to him other than to say that he disagreed with the statements of one official after another. Blair might have appeared calm but his delusions are more visible than ever before.

> J H did a pretty good job, as he usually does, but really failed dismally to ask the important questions when they are needed.

The bit about the marsh arabs begged a question about the 650,000 murdered. Then, when Bliar says "... no one has any plans to attack Iran ..." he should really have been asked why there have been so many reliable sources that have been saying that an attack on Iran has been planned by the Americans since we rolled into Iraq.

But what is the point of asking a congenital liar questions. You know the answer will be bollocks. Maybe it's S & M; listen to a half hour interview with Bliar.