Blair says he cries for the war dead? Who will cry for him?

Tony Blair, a politician who I once admired, who came to the office of British prime minister with the promise that he would drive the final nail in the coffin of Thatcherism, that selfish-take-care-of-me-the-hell-with-everybody-else social policy of the Conservative politician Margaret Thatcher, has published his memoirs. For 700 pages of fantasy, lies and excuses, he received an advance of four million British pounds ($7 million). The book is titled, "A Journey."

Tony Blair claims in his memoirs that he got drunk to cope with the stress and he cried "for Iraq war victims."

So he says -- He was a stinking crying drunk? He admits to no war crimes.

Mr. Blair, George W. Bush's junior partner in the invasion of Iraq, writes in his memoirs that the Queen, Elizabeth II, intimidated him. Maybe she recognized him for what he is, a smooth talker, a nice suit with nothing much inside. Mr Blair says that he does not regret his participation in the Iraqi invasion, and his role in the removal of the dictator, Saddam Hussein, though he admits that the planning for the invasion and its aftermath was lacking.

Mr Blair confesses -- "never did I guess the nightmare that unfolded" once Saddam was removed.

Mr Blair couldn't fall before the public and confess that he was a rotten rotter for leading his country into Iraq. The Iraq war defines him. It is his legacy that overrides everything that he tried to do for his country. Instead of working for the good of his people, he brought death to so many of his young countrymen.

Mr Blair says, "he wept for (the war) victims." He says that he will be donating all proceeds from the book to a charity for wounded troops.

Mr Blair heaps praise on George W. Bush. He couldn't criticize his war partner without criticizing himself. He heaps scorn on the man who helped him and New Labor come to power, the man who was his close colleague in office for ten years, Gordon Brown. Mr. Blair praises George W. Bush and curses Mr. Brown. Blair's association with Bush condemns him to the rubbish bins of history. Mr. Blair talks about Mr. Brown, as if he is talking about a sick, rabid dog.

Final point -- Mr Blair says he possibly drank a bit too much. The pressures of office drove him to drink. Therefore, Britain was led to war by a drunk?