Bush-hatred has ruined much of America's left. Blair-hatred is doing something similar to some UK Tories.
Last week on Question Time, Michael Howard made an eloquent case for getting rid of Saddam but persisted with his reasonable critique of the way in which Tony Blair made the case for war.
Some conservatives - Michael Moore conservatives - are so consumed with Blair-hatred, however, that they have completely lost the plot.
Three statements in today's Mail on Sunday illustrate the way Tony Blair has distorted Britain's right. The three statements could easily have appeared in any George Galloway election leaflet. They are rebutted below.
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Innocent Iraqis, caught in the hell of modern warfare… died needlessly.”
CONSERVATIVEHOME.COM: What offensive crap. They didn’t die needlessly. They died for democracy and the liberation of their country. The 60% of Iraqis who voted in January’s first modern-day election risked death to honour their countrymen who died for a democratic, post-Saddam future where poison gas isn’t an instrument of law and order.
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “All we can know for sure today is that every single one of [Tony Blair’s] public arguments for the invasion was false.”
CONSERVATIVEHOME.COM: His argument that 25 million people would be liberated? His argument that the world would be better off without Saddam? His argument that Iraq shouldn’t be allowed to constantly flout UN resolutions? His argument that Saddam was a threat to his neighbours? His argument that Saddam’s scientists had the capacity to produce dangerous weapons? Tony Blair DID exaggerate the case on WMD and his case for pre-emptive action against Iraq was too narrow. But it is ludicrous for the MoS to claim that every single one of the public arguments for the invasion were false.
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “As for the linked claim that, if Mr Blair had not acted, Saddam Hussein would still be there, it is vainglorious and absurd. The US could and would have removed Saddam without British help.”
CONSERVATIVEHOME.COM: Or, in other words, let’s freeload on America. The Mail on Sunday – so hard line when it comes to “benefit scroungers” – wants Britain to sponge off America. Yes, there may be a global war on terror but the Chamerlain tendency at the Mail would rather not make any sacrifices for freedom. Our security may be worth American lives – but not one drop of British blood. Mail newspapers appeased Hitler in the 1930s and they’re still appeasing today.
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This posting is adapted from a new conservativehome.com memo* on how five of Britain's Sunday newspapers are voting.
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