{"id":193434,"date":"2015-10-22T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=193434"},"modified":"2015-10-22T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:47:21","slug":"war-criminal-blair-memo-provides-ammo-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/war-criminal-blair-memo-provides-ammo-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"War Criminal Blair memo provides ammo for critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Less than a day after a revelation that Tony Blair had plotted the invasion of Iraq a year before it actually happened speculations are rising in Britain over how this could provide more ammunition to criticisms against the former prime minister. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition told Press TV on Sunday that the revelation testifies the hypothesis that Blair took an illegal decision to take Britain to war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis decision was illegal regardless to anything else that happened. To say that we are going to war not about the defense of Britain or the United States but effectively about regime change,\u201d said German.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what the memo does is to give us further proof that Blair should be \u2026 prosecuted as a war criminal (in The Hague),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Chris Bambery, a UK-based journalist, writer and broadcaster, told Press TV that the revelation by the British media regarding Blair\u2019s decision over the Iraq war is not a big surprise but is nonetheless a fresh proof that the former prime minister \u201cwas a liar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/18\/433985\/Blair-memo-provides-ammo-for-critics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a day after a revelation that Tony Blair had plotted the invasion of Iraq a year before it actually happened speculations are rising in Britain over how this could provide more ammunition to criticisms against the former prime minister. \u00a0 Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition told Press TV on Sunday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}