Pilger: Blair's Bloody Hands

Melbourneindymedia: "Almost eight years ago, the choir of British liberalism celebrated a new age. Tony Blair, wrote the liberal thinker Hugo Young, "wants to create a world none of us have known," a world which "ideology has surrendered entirely to 'values' [and where] there are no sacred cows, no fossilized limits to the ground over which the mind might range in search of a better Britain." Besotted minds ranged far. Link

[db] can clearly remember the excitement. The long cold years of Tory rule were at an end, and neo-labour had brought hope that with Blair - an outstanding orator, dynamic and clever - things would be very different. And they were. But not in the way soft headed liberals such as the writer had expected. This was a leader closer to Thatcher than to Foot [Michael] and more in common with the worlds arch-villain Bush and his crass notions of "freedom" than with the rich history of the UK labour movement - where the word "freedom" had an alternative meaning that didn't necessitate the murder of dark-skinned people to bring it about. John Pilger saw it all coming apparently.