That is the key point made in a hard-hitting article published in RT, by Damian Wilson, a U.K. journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the U.K. and EU. Wilson rips into Blair’s recent RU.S.I speech, which Wilson described as “Shameless Blair lectures the world on military strategy, with no word of the deceit he engineered for an illegal assault on Iraq.” Blair is so full of himself that he is “seemingly unaware that many people view him as a war criminal who deserves to be put on trial.” (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/534082-blair-military-strategy-iraq-assault/)
Unfortunately, whether intentionally or otherwise, Wilson gets the causality backwards regarding the U.K.-U.S. relationship: “His [Blair’s] acquiescence to U.S. demands for an attack on Saddam Hussein earned Blair the U.S. Medal of Freedom from George Bush and 20 years of opprobrium from the British public, which has only increased as the years have passed on par with his own immense personal wealth. A poll in 2017 found a third of the British public would like to see Blair put on trial as a war criminal.”
