george galloway he's a well known fan of mr blair why are former officials like tony blair and current ones like william hague still defending iraq it's collapsing do they really think that the current situation has nothing to do with the invasion in two thousand and three well there's a national consensus emerging here stretching from the mayor of london across parliament and most of the media including right wing newspapers that supported the war at the time that mr blair may have become mentally unhinged certainly einstein's definition of madness namely. to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result means your probably mentally unhinged seems to apply here because mr blair was as you said this very weekend not only defending what he did and there are precious few people anywhere in the world who will be found to come on television and defend. to say that we should do it again mr blair wants us to read invade iraq but he seems like mr haygood right because we. well mr hague said that we were right to invade iraq he's not saying we should invade it again blair

certainly tony blair has benefited from war and deaths and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a reinvention of rag and i did a little back of the oblongata elation i figured that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds but tony blair's retirement. right from the seat. first trip you and i were being butchered. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the. you know that you know the premise is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. rule. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate excellent work of our government and across several we've been hijacked like a handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion on the critical issues facing the. you're re

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of the role that we played out we know this was your revolution from your bravery a time when tony blair's handshake with colonel gadhafi was conveniently forgotten and maybe now the british prime minister in my twenty fifth get that the libyan democratic project did not turn out quite as planned the method libya is. op and the violence state. political stability. our internal security for its people always out in security in its border the point of entry election is underway but the hand of the rule seems very far away two months ago parliament was overrun by gunmen jihadists militias and gangsters have taken over the streets as the climate of fear intensifies a growing number of libyans look to jennifer leaf or have tar as their savior his supporters see him as the only man capable of crushing radical armed groups and building a national army the us excel has promised to rid the country of foreign fighters and with strong links to egypt's new president washington considers him a cia asset but not contained with meddling from the far the united states has sparked outrage by seizing a liby

invasion of the country according to blair quote we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we we have in it so rather than continuing to rerun the debate over iraq from over eleven years ago realise that whatever we had done or not done we would be facing a big challenge today blair then goes on to resurrect his shattered legacy by a laughably attempting to reimagine a world in which saddam hussein was permitted to continue rolling iraq hidden visions how the arab spring would have led to mass chaos in the country essentially his argument is that hey iraq was destined for anarchy no matter what so just ignore the deaths of over a million iraqis forty five hundred u.s. soldiers and one hundred seventy nine u. k. soldiers and while you're at it pay no attention to the two thousand and three i'm sorry two thousand and two downing street memo or u.k. government documents specifically stating that intelligence was being cherry picked to support for removing saddam good military intervention because hey that was over a decade ago and since none of that has had anything to do with wh

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and he's a professor at george mason university sounds an awful lot like tony blair as well also in the pages of the papers here in the u.k. was calling for all out war on the middle east well the headline is the lack of major wars may be hurting economic growth and his argument is that the perception and persistence in expectation of peace is actually harming economic growth because the world just hasn't had that much warfare lately at least not by historical standards some of the recent headlines about iraq or south sudan make our world sound like a very bloody place but today's casualties pale in light of the tens of millions of people killed in the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century even the vietnam war had many more deaths than any recent war involving an affluent country and even gives the chart mannix of these death and c.c. declining declining since the fifty's peace is deflationary and they're trying to create inflation so of course that is in the interest of those who enjoy the inflationary wealth confiscation scam to perpetrate war this is also part of

by now with all their deaths they had well certainly tony blair has benefited from war and deaths and he totally destroyed iraq and he's calling for a reinvention of iraq and i did a little back of the of a look out elation i figured that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it'll add about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement fund so families of us soldiers out there don't think they're dying for nothing he also says along these lines it may seem repugnant to find a positive side to war in this regard but a look at american history suggests we cannot dismiss the idea so easily again even though it's repugnant look what happened we had nuclear power the computer the modern aircraft the internet but that's the argument many make about hitler well he built these great autobahns right exactly the technological progress that is associated with wars have a residual impact in peacetime certainly the man landing on the moon is the result of the computer era technology coming out of world war two and you have this big. big boom and technology but i don't think it's really a c

tony blair repeatedly lied to the public about this enterprise. he was advised by his attorney general that the whole thing was illegal in international law initially and he did not share that memo with his own cabinet. he hated it from the british public hearing he said it was not about oil, but we now know he was quite grating with bp officials to make sure they got it after the war was over. -- got bids after the war was over. he violated international law repeatedly and british domestic law in pursuing this war of aggression. so, you know, it is very unfortunate for him that the war of aggression turned into a quagmire and a disaster of various sorts so that it is very obvious that it was a bad idea, but i think the real problem here is the united nations charge was enacted to stop aggressive warfare. we do not want more germany's invading poland and there were no legitimate legal grounds for a british invasion of iraq in 2003, and that is the real problem here, it was illegal. >> and asked the question of would've it be better if saddam husse

case tony blair wrote we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we have caused this we have it the sunni extremists now control vast areas in iraq including the cities of fallujah and to create as well as mosul the second largest these cities which have been battered by the decade long war looked very different before the u.s. and u.k. invasion. in two thousand and two i was in a most truly in the northern city that has been now seized by the rebels the sunni revolt at that time in two thousand and two most soon and i was greeted by people in mosul they were christians they were sunni arabs shiite arabs and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were around multinational the. multicultural communities have a record their time and they were living in peace today they are divided along sectarian lines because of an outside invasion washington is now divided between those who oppose any u.s. military intervention in iraq and those who say something has to be done because the. great. officials. say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to make their push the mili

certainly tony blair has benefited from war and death and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a reign of iraq and i did a little back of the. i figured that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds but tony blair's retirement. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles stories. here. spanish. visit. welcome back you're watching on t.v. international next a new lore on cyber terrorism in the u.k. would see hackers jailed for life but some in the security industry claim the move designed to protect people from cyber crime because ironically make the internet less safe. the reports. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence and the serious crime bill proposed in the queen's speech computer hackers who launched devastating attacks on u.k. infrastructure could soon face life behind bars as a single attack can have such a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in our electricity for a

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blair himself was part of the problem. blair was along with president bush was responsible for the manufactured information this information intelligence manipulation of intelligence to justify going to war this war in many in many ways money at much of what we are seeing today in the middle east is a byproduct as a consequence of what happened in iraq the destruction of the role of the death of hundreds of thousands of people were manufactured evidence the poor children. all of this created a negative anti american peeling in much of the region and him for that matter in much of the world and as a result of that i mean there's no doubt that the war showed the awesome power of the military power of the united states the united states sent hundreds of thousands of troops with a very sophisticated weaponry and equipment to iraq and the region and brought down yes iraq was under sanctions for twelve years but there were wasn't even a threat to the united states or a match during the one thousand nine hundred ninety one war bu

many people in the west blame the invasion of iraq in 2003 by the blair bush alliance. sunnis say because the iraqi government has been rerentlessly shiite in recent years and excluded him. tony blair himself is unrepent ent. >> what we estimated about the region is once you remove the dictatorship, out come this is tribal, ethnic and religious tension. >>> the war in 2003 got rid of the dictator that held the different religious and ethnic groups together. without saddam, terrorism had free rain if in iraq, syria and across the region. now the american and british troops have gone. the iraqi government has to face an extremist sunni uprising on its on. >> if in syria and iraq there's a sunni extremist entity with isis in charge that carves out a place for itself it will be the great irony of the modern era. president bush said he wanted to go to iraq and fight terrorism. there were no terrorists. there are now. >> security in the streets is intense. the iraqi army received good training and good equipment from the u.s. and britain. the events of the past week have show

blair says linking the two is a bizarre reading of the cauldron. even if you left saddam in place in 2003, then when 2011 happened and you had the arab revolutions going through tunisia, libya a, yemen, bahrai egypt and syria you still would have had a major problem in iraq. you can see what happens when you leave a dictator in place as happened with assad now. the problems don't go away. that doesn't mean engagement in iraq, afghanistan and ground troops. it does mean we try to shape the situation with allies in the region and don't believe if we wash our hands and walk away, the problems will be solved. >> tony blair. he won't admit the mess he and george bush created. he sure wants president obama to clean it up. the prime minister needs a reality check. if tony blair thinks denying responsibility for one disaster in iraq can hook us into another, he can keep on pretending. creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united st

britain's former prime minister tony blair is again feeling the heat over dragging the u.k. into a costly war in iraq on a false pretext to lose his current position as middle east peace envoy it's rankling senior figures now a group of former diplomats have written to demand blair be fired one of them retired british ambassador all of the miles explain to me the reasons for the move . the first is simply that he's paid a little for seven years which is low enough for anybody i think and it's difficult to see that he's contributed a great time to a peace process when in palestine the second reason is that i think he's the wrong man for the job and i felt right from the beginning because he was responsible for the war in iraq which was illegal he lied to the british people about it he failed . the american president george bush failed to make a plan for what would happen after the war was over after fighting was over and as a result we've seen a dreadful consequence in iraq resulting in the problems that have become so acute in the last few few days few weeks. putting our cap

soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. welcome by a recap of our breaking news story the head of the main hospital in lugansk house confirms a russian journalist has died after being caught up in violence in eastern ukraine a crew from the to see a t.v. channel was hit during the army's continued shelling of a village near the city of lookouts reporter. in surgery his fellow camera months five but a third crewmember is yet on accounted for you're watching the last footage the journalist to film during the assault. american troops are going back to iraq the u.s. is sending up to two hundred seventy five personnel to protect its embassy staff and assets there is since large parts of the country fell into the hands of the extremist group known as isis the islamic state of iraq and. these shaded areas on the map are areas where that you have a star in full or even partial control president obama sees the troops remain in place until the situation improves washington is also considering teaming up with a run on launching drone

i talked with tony blair earlier today. mr. enormous criticism in the past day for a comment laying blame for the current crisis here in iraq for the war on syria or failure to respond and the failure of the maliki government to overcome sec tar yin impulses. does it not also bear responsibility? al qaeda wasn't here in iraq until that occupation. >> sure, just so that i'm absolutely clear about this. my purpose is not to lay blame on anybody. my purpose is to draw attention to the nature of the challenge we face in this region, and the need to do something about it. of course, having removed the saddam government in 2003, that's got implications of consequences for iraq today, but it's also important to realize two very important things, the first is that this group isis basically rebuilt themselves, rearmed, they launched their attack on iraq from syria. so what our intervention in iraq shows is how difficult intervention is and none intervention. that's my first point, my second point is when you take account of the arab spr

toward anything meaningful but i would posit that because of your work and others folks like tony blair are now being pilloried and excoriated and talked about as really going to the hague and facing charges as a war criminal this is because of the work that you and others have done he's a guy he could be the guy the weak link that he does get hung for just us i mean tony blair we we caught him committing perjury he went to the house of parliament and said here he never ever went to the bill burr group we confronted him and he stuttered and stumbled but he admitted that he actually went to the secretive allusive meeting there's actually letters that were released by henry kissinger saying how afraid he is of facing persecution and war crimes and tribunals because of all horrible actions he did with his foreign policy so these people are afraid and when you face them one on one and you tell them you know how does it feel to be a war criminal like we did to tony blair and we coasted during a number of times you know you feel that energy kind of shift because when you're at these events i

that's what tony blair says in that quote.this. >> and take a listen to this. >> the leaders should be telling us, which is what we should do, they are not have. no one is -- if you recall during the cold war, some of us were there for a time, we have looked at the world as a chess game. what do you do to mitigate whatever bad outcomes from that? we don't do that. simply put, the white house reacts to headlines over what to anticipate. >> as recently as february, a top lieutenant general sat in front of congress and testified about what they knew the terrorist organization was about to do. to grab large portions of the territory and to move into iraq with terrorism and seize large cities in southern iraq. we knew this was coming and we are acting surprised. >> malaki has been the worst. the u.s. government under obama should be more on top of this that it was rather than say we are revug these. >> we have to make sure the president is surrounding himself with people to keep him accountable, which seems to be a tough task. we h

certainly tony blair has benefited from war and death and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a rainbow nation of iraq and i did a little back of the oblongata elation i figured that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds tony blair's retirement. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. i'm good it's because one full attention and the mainstream media work side by side with you is actually on here. and our team we have to print press. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not hi. i'm. you guys have to the jokes well handled in the sense that i'm. it's a classic. over by. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution should survive that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy which recall books. will. never go on i'm sorry a

how about this, blair? remember blair? and mrs. garrett? look at blair and mrs. garrett. all right?er name's lisa wellchell and charlotte ray. they put it on instagram. anyway. >> is this going to air? >> i hope so. >> next month lisa is starring with kim fields, who played tooty, i loved tooty, in a movie on hallmark. "facts of life" '79 to -- >> i remember watching the halloween special and we were scared. it was a comedy but they were 5. so anything, there was a ghost or something in the dorm, barbara and i could not sleep. >> terrified. >> i don't have the belly -- >> exactly. here's one of those great fell-good pieces of video. pope francis was driving through italy on this country road. looked out of his window and he saw signs asking him to bless an angel. so he got out of the car and he found this young disabled woman named roberta, take a look. >> i love this. >> oh my gosh. that's one of the things that just makes you want to cry. >> especially, you know what, he's so unique in that way. >> i love this pope. >> look at the car he's riding in. he pulled over on a country ro

tony blair is sort of living in a parallel universe. some sort of bastard of democracy.een recently in britain emerging after the largest party in the european election. lou: obviously it is interesting we have seen very little coverage in this country. this has to security establishment here almost as much as it has scared the establishment in the eu. al come back and we will talk about this some more. thank you so much for being with us. now to the weekend box office with "maleficent" casted a spell on moviegoers. beating expectations. imagine that raking in $70 million in the weekend debut. x-men days of futures past held a second place but still raked in th a handful. vanessa dependency on russia and the last man to walk on the mo moon, with her vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. sim

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tony blair is sort of living in a parallel universe. some sort of bastard of democracy.t you've seen recently in britain emerging after the largest party in the european election. lou: obviously it is interesting we have seen very little coverage in this country. this has to security establishment here almost as much as it has scared the establishment in the eu. al come back and we will talk about this some more. thank you so much for being with us. now to the weekend box office with "maleficent" casted a spell on moviegoers. beating expectations. imagine that raking in $70 million in the weekend debut. x-men days of futures past held a second place but still raked in th a handful. vanessa dependency on russia and the last man to walk on the mo moon, with us next. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introd

certainly tony blair has benefited from war and deaths and he told the destroyed iraq and he's calling for a rainbow rag and i did a little back of the are blocked out elation i figured that for every dead puke a soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. but all told him all languages or what are all only react to situations i haven't read the reports for i'm likely to put in the no i will leave them to stay current a comment on your latter point among to say to secure a car is all your dog can know god. they do no more weasel words. when you vain a direct question are you prepared for a change when you have to punish the really for a bad. freedom of speech means little down to freedom to question. bits would he hit me again today three times in the shoulder with this this tin once in my head just because i said don't shout what a moron i hate him once the next time why didn't i we've him when he raised his hand the first time it was an actor were two thousand and three two months after our wedding. when i asked her that shana do you love

soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. bits would he hit me again today three times in the shoulder with his fists in once in my head and just because i said don't shout what a moron i hate him once the next time why didn't i we'd him when he raised his hand the first time it was an actor were two thousand and three two months after our wedding. when i asked her then shana do you love him why won't you leave him and she left no. our love ended after the wedding. and one time she said to me mom i have a concussion because i fell down and i asked where did you fall down i slipped and fell and i said did you really fall yes i fell and lattimer's faced. she never complained to me about well at first i felt male solidarity with him i'm a man he's a man i thought doesn't have issues with his wife his character is different on my wall so i more or less took his side and then he basically router i went to him and asked why what's wrong with you. and i know that if i swear to somebody i'll keep the oath until i die and that's what

certainly tony blair has benefited from war and deaths and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a re-invention of iraq and i did a little of back available of documentation i figured that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq. add about twenty five thousand pounds. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic. reporting from the world talks about seventy r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see then try. to. visit. with the. audience technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia. welcome back let's get going again with a recap of our breaking news story here in r.t. the head of the main hospital has confirmed a russian journalist has died after being caught up in violence in eastern ukraine a crew from the to see a t.v. channel was hit during the army's continued shelling of a village near the city of lugansk reporter. who died in surgery his fellow camera month survived but a third crew member is on accounted for there watching the last footage the journalists monitor the film during the assault. american troop

out of canada blair and morgan, they and their children just completed a year of living without modern technology as if it were the year 1986, thanks to all of you for being here. blair, you and morgan are raising two young kids and one day your five-year-old son was playing outside on a beautiful day and wants to be in the house on his tablet and that really got you thinking. >> yeah, it just started making me think about how different life was when i was a kid when you didn't have these modern gadgets in your face. >> so how did you approach morgan with this and when you did was she open to the idea of living like it was 1986 for a year? what did you do come up and say gee honey let's go back 25 years ago? >> she was on a business trip and i sent a text message and i said i have an idea that is good for the family but it will involve you putting away the ipad and she just came back with what? no, way, i'm not really feeling that but i'll listen to it and now we have an mullet and we are here. >> morgan, what convinced you to do it and what was the adjustment like going back more than

daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton.. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> good thursday morning. >>> we first have a check of the forecast. meteorologist mike nicco is here. >> good morning, tracking fog. especially along the coast. a mile and a half in half moon bay there is fog in san francisco. it is stretching to oakland. everyone else is okay. it will spread through the bay the next hour or two. from richmond and san rafael bridge to san mateo we could have fog. this afternoon, we will turnout like year. inland east bay is warmest. upper 80's to low 90. coast and san francisco, the mildest at 60 to 67. the rest of the bay is around 69 to 83. quite a summer spread. leyla gulen? >> good morning, everyone, happy friday eve at 4:28. we are looking at quiet conditions on the road but for the construction. westbound 580 from tracy to dublin is 24 minutes and highway 4 westbound from antioch to concord is 15 minutes. 101 southbound to san francisco is 18 minutes and when you pass the bay bridge

blair, you and morgan are raising two young kids, and one day your 5-year-old son passes up playing outside on a beautiful day and instead opts to be in the house on his tablet. that really got you thinking? >> yeah. it started to make me think about how different life was when i was a kid when you didn't have all these modern gadgets kind of in your face. >> so how did you approach morgan with this? when you did, was she open to the idea of living like it was 1986 for a year? what did he do? let's pretend it's 25 years ago? >> ironically, she was on a business trip, and i sent her a text message and all i told her was, i thought of an idea that would be good for the family, but it's going to involve you putting away the ipad. she just came back with, what? no way. i'm not really feeling that, but i'll listen to it. now we got a it here. >> what convinced you to do it, and what was the adjustment like more than 25 years in time essentially? >> i guess it shows that i love him since i did it. when he first told me, i thought he was crazy. i wasn't quite sure about it, but i would support him

certainly tony blair has benefited from war. deaths and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a rag and i did a little back of the. i figure that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it all had about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. the tried to. pull out of. your life for the short changing every minute. sometimes made no law oh well. like. most things since. most cases it's. sometimes for nothing. this season to. look just keep still we can still be jobst if you see a stage eight look easy. but he was. plenty. bright promising. first rate. and i think you're. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the. lobby. one year ago today journalist glenn greenwald published the first of many revelations about the n.s.a.'s dragnet program a program that secretly gathered tons of data about the communication activity of ordinary american citizens now behind the whistleblowing was edward snowden snowden used an encrypted e-mail service called lava bit its owner leveson recently wrote in the guardian newspaper about how the federal governm

bush and man known by many of his former henchmen, tony blair. this weekend one of the two men broke their silence on the iraq crisis for the first time. tony blair posted a lengthy essay on his website refuting the idea the war in iraq may have had a little something to do with the current situation in that country. spoiler alert, the essay basically goes like this. >> all these hands. >> okay. so it wasn't exactly that monologue, but blair did say, "we have to liberate ourselves" -- liberate -- "liberate ourselves from the notion we have caused this. we have it. we can argue as to whether our policies and points have helped or not and whether action or inaction is the best policy. there's a lot to be said on both sides. but the fundamental cause of the crisis lies within the region, not outside it." that prompted boris johnson, conservative mayor of london who actually voted for war to respond in way that should truly be a model for politicians. here in the u.s. >> i can understand that he feels very, very shattered and guilty about the whole t

soldier in iraq it'll add about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. well if you're going to come and watch the news all the face i felt like you know. led. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. on marriage in the financial world. to cease to moments cannot stop it only takes no demand to credit. and life there. coming up on our t.v. iraq is an adult and violence as another city falls into the hands of isis militants and ever closer to the nation's capital of baghdad a look at the growing threat from isis coming up. and in eastern ukraine a russian t.v. reporter and a crew member lose their lives it happened during a shelling attack in a region where ukrainian troops still battle anti kiev separatists the latest coming up. and guantanamo bay officials claim that region's haney's committed suicide but a new report claims that there's been a cover up about the actual causes of their deaths more on that later in the show.

we're going to play a round of deal or no deal with blair efron and ralph fluff stein. >>> taking flightrd gordon bathune tells us what he sees happening in the airline business. >> and stocks hovering near record highs, but questions about the economy are nagging investors. we'll look ahead to the second half of the year, as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody! happy friday. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernan and andrew ross sorkin. we've been watching the futures, and there are some red arrows once again. dow futures are down by about 38 points this morning, and the s&p futures are down by just over 5 1/2 points. the ten-year note at this point looks like it is yield 2.251%. so some additional pressure on yields for bonds at this point. in our headlines this morning, opposite fortunes for two dow companies. nike shares rising in pre-market trading, following an upbeat earnings report. nike earned 78 cents a share for its latest quarter. that was 3 cents better than expected. it benefitted from a marketing

i want to turn to comments made by former british prime minister tony blair over the weekend. he said in fact the 2003 invasion of iraq was not responsible for the violent insurgency engulfing the country. he was speaking on the bbc's andrew marr show. let's go to a clip. >> if you left saddam hussein in place in 2003, when 2011 happened and you had the arab resolutions on through libya, bahrain, egypt, and syria, you would have still had a major problem in iraq. you can see what happens when you leave a dictator in place, as what happens now. what i prefer a situation where we left saddam hussein in place in 2003? do i think the region would be safer if we did that? my answer is unhesitatingly no. >> that was former prime minister of britain tony blair speaking over the weekend. could you respond to the comments he made? the situation in iraq was extremely bad, and definitely it of feared the republic with reason. you cannot justify post-fact of an invasion that was absolutely horrible. first of all, it was unjustified. lie,d, it was based on a the weapons of mass destruction