Blustering Tony Blair still a victim of his ego
His extraordinary press conference performance after the Chilcot report shows he’s still convinced he did the right thing
I had thought by now that the Iraq war had delivered all of its unforgettable images. There was that first night of Dick Cheney’s ‘shock and awe’ firestorm over Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s hollow statue crashing down; the lines of hooded prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo; and the blackened bodies, hanging from the bridge at Fallujah.
Another image, repulsive and emblematic, stood out above others: Saddam’s execution. There he was finally, stone-faced and ...
