To: maceng2 who wrote (57944 ) 3/14/2016 11:17:51 AM From: ggersh Read Replies (1) | Respond to theguardian.com John Crace October 2007. A swimming pool inside the Rwandan presidential palace. Tony Blair is lying on a sun lounger soaked with the blood of hundreds of thousands of murdered Hutus. Blair pulls up his Speedos to expose his butt-cheeks to the burning African sun. “I love it when you do that,” murmurs Cherie, sipping a dry martini while a slave fans her. President Kagame leans towards Blair. “I want to meet the most important person in the world,” he says. Blair pulls off his Ray-Bans and looks the president straight in the eye. “You’re talking to him,” he replies. “Now give me several hundred million dollars in cash that I can channel back into my foundation so that no one ever finds out how rich and venal I really am.”1997 . I was one of them. Little did we know how quickly our trust in him would be abused by the most deceitful man to have ever walked the corridors of cliches. Take education and health, often hailed as two of the great successes of Blair’s government. Look behind the smokescreens of brand new schools and hospitals and you soon find a depressing world of failure, neglect and corruption. “Look behind the smokescreens of brand new schools,” a woman with a grudge against him tells me in strictest confidence, “and what you see is a depressing world of failure, neglect and corruption.” Cherie ,” says another person with a grudge against him. “It was her greed to acquire a multi-million pound property empire that drove the NHS to breaking point.”2003. The turning point. If Blair had merely been a bit useless and only marginally corrupt before the Iraq war, he became a tyrant after it. The Oval Office. George Bush is in his cowboy outfit. “Can I wear your chaps?” asks Blair. “ Only if you guarantee to invade Iraq and pretend Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.” “That’s a deal,” says Tony. “I’ll get Alastair on to it right now.”monstrous act a British prime minister has ever committed against his own people,” says a former cabinet minister with a grudge against him. “I bitterly regret ever having believed a word he said. I’m so tortured with guilt and remorse, I haven’t slept a wink in the last 13 years.”2007. Blair is pacing Downing Street in the Nike tracksuit presented to him by President Gaddafi . The phone rings. It’s Cherie calling from Saudi Arabia where she has just bought a $50,000 ring after signing a billion-pound arms deal. “We’ve got enough in the bank. You can retire now.” 2012. The Labour party is in meltdown and it’s all Blair’s fault. Millions of illegal immigrants are roaming round Britain and it’s all Blair’s fault. And where’s Blair? Hanging around in a hot tub with Wendi Deng , while raking in millions of dollars through dodgy deals with third world despots. “Everything that is wrong with the entire world is down to Blair,” says Rupert Murdoch, a man who doesn’t hold a grudge against Tony now he is happily married to Jerry .Digested read, digested: The Tragedy of Bower.
