In the pursuit of the imaginary WMDs, the invasion of Iraq was something that could win Tony Blair the Nobel Peace Prize in his mind. Blair in 2003:
... if we do conquer Iraq, and remove Saddam Hussein, there's a chance we could win the Nobel Peace Prize, and you know, frankly, isn't that something worth going to war for?
Meanwhile after years of an actual violence in Darfur, Blair is a little less impatient. Today it is reported that the death toll is enormous (not that this wasn't anticipated):
...Between 170 000 and 255 000 people have died in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region since 2003, according to a new study that says the death toll is often under reported.
But the actual number of people who have died could be as high as 400 000, said one of the study's author's John Hagan, a sociology and law professor at Northwestern University in Illinois...
And will Blair step up to the plate and demand, as he did for Iraq, that the world can not wait any longer? Well, not quite.
In the letter to his counterparts in the other 24 member states as well as Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, Blair said the European Union should play a “central role in mobilising world opinion on this issue”.
Isn't it about 2 years too late for statements like this? Wouldn't a call to action be a tad more appropriate? I suppose he figures world opinion is not 'mobilised" enough to get him that evasive Nobel Prize.
Between 200 000 and 400 000 dead and with leadership so clearly needed he is talking about world opinion. When they invaded Iraq he didn't give a damn about world opinion. Disgusting.
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