‘The Man Is a War Criminal!’: Tony Blair Heckler Interrupts Inquiry With Whacky Theory About Iraq War and JP Morgan
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LONDON (The Blaze/AP) — Former Prime Minister Tony Blair testified Monday that he never challenged the influential British press because doing so would have plunged his administration in a drawn-out and politically damaging fight.
Blair led Britain from 1997 to 2007, and his Labour Party government has been criticized by many – including some of Blair’s former colleagues – as having an unhealthy relationship with the country’s press.
But his testimony was briefly interrupted when a heckler burst in through a secure corridor behind Lord Justice Brian Leveson, shouting: “This man should be arrested for war crimes!” before being removed by security.
“JP Morgan paid him off for the Iraq War,” he said. “Three months after he invaded Iraq, they held up the Iraq bank for 20 billion. He was then paid $6 million every year and still is from JP Morgan, six months after he left office. The man is a war criminal!”
Still, Blair felt the need to go on the record and say the man’s allegations were “completely and totally untrue.”
Leveson, looking ruffled, said he would investigate how the man managed to sneak in to the secured zone.
The man was identified by the Daily Mail as 49-year-oldDavid Lawley-Wakelin, a veteran protester who later told reporters he was from the Alternative Iraq Enquiry.
Blair, speaking under oath at an inquiry into media ethics, said the issue wasn‘t that he and Britain’s journalistic elite were too cozy, but that he had to tread carefully where press barons were concerned.
“I took a strategic decision to manage these people, not confront them,” he told Leveson, who is leading the inquiry. “I didn’t say that I feared them … (but) had you decided to confront them, everything would have been pushed to the side.
“It would have been a huge battle with no guarantee of winning.”
Leveson‘s inquiry was set up following revelations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid, a scandal which has rocked the British establishment and raised questions about whether top politicians helped shield Murdoch – and the media in general – from official scrutiny.
Blair‘s time in office was marked by unusually strong ties between Blair’s left-wing Labour Party and Murdoch’s News Corp. – a company whose holdings include the populist The Sun newspaper and the right-wing Fox News network.
Blair became a godfather to one of Murdoch’s children and his government has since been described by several colleagues as having been too close to the media mogul.
The former prime minister made no apologies for courting Murdoch, saying he was just one of several media tycoons who could make life difficult if they weren’t happy with a position he was taking.
But he denied doing any kind of deal with Murdoch, “either express or implied.”
Blair’s government had an up-and-down relationship with many media organizations, basking in the glow of public adulation following his landslide 1997 victory and enduring increasingly caustic criticism following his deeply unpopular decision to invade Iraq alongside then-U.S. President George W. Bush.
Blair’s senior lieutenants developed a reputation for bullying, manipulation, and “spin” – something Blair decried as an oft-repeated myth.
Still, he acknowledged that politics and media had become “far more rude and brutal – and in a sense crude – in its interaction.”
Blair’s appearance kicked off an important week at the judge-led inquiry. Several senior politicians have appeared at the investigation set up last year when it emerged that reporters at the Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid had routinely hacked into the phones of public figure and crime victims.
The scandal has rocked Britain’s establishment, leading to the arrest or resignation of dozens of journalists, media executives, political operatives and police, prison and military officials. It’s also exposed a pattern of wrongdoing across the British press, from bribery to blackmail.
The investigation continues: As Blair was testifying, police said they’d arrested a 42-year-old woman on suspicion of money laundering offenses linked to the hacking scandal.
Leveson is examining whether politicians failed to get a handle on the lawlessness at the News of the World and other papers because they were too close to the media – or too scared of it.
Current ministers including Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Education Minister Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May will also testify this week.
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Bangstick
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:55pmIt wasn’t JP Morgan that paid! JPM paid kickbacks from the tax payer bailouts to stay out of jail.
It was Haliburton that paid for the war in Iraq!!
Get your conspiracies right, man!!
lol
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:40amWasn’t JP Morgan on “Hollywood Squares”? Or was it “Match Game”?
Report Post »epicwinofgod
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:11pmSometimes knowing something others does not can eat away at a man until he breaks down. Just something I have learned about people others view as “crazy”. Sometimes it’s what they know that makes them crazy. So I won‘t stay he’s wrong nor right, but something drove him to do what he did. His reaction is proof. Smart people would raise questions. Clueless people would call him crazy and move on. At least, that’s how I see it.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:28pmEpic post. I wish all people would think like you. Just cause you have never heard something doesnt mean its not real. Good post.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:10pmI often ask the question ..How much war can there be if banks would not finance it? Banks do finance wars,sometime even both sides of the same conflict…this may be the worst acts of evil in the world..they count their profits and don’t care how many died
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:32pmTony Blair and George Bush have been charged with war crimes along with Rumsfield and Chenny. Thru the world court. Rumsfield almost got arrested in France. This isnt as crazy as you think. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. They kill a half a million people for no reason.
Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:33pmNo, you’re as crazy as I think. There were weapons of mass destruction, but Saddam Insane moved them before our troops got there. All intelligence (new word for you!) agreed on that, even from other countries. Time to get over yourself. If you want to discuss something that is truly a disgrace, a sine, and should be declared illegal, it is giving someone a Nobel ‘Peace Prize’ (Gore and Obama) when they not only didn’t deserve them, but actually did more harm than good in the world in general, and the USA in particular.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:03pmLol intelligence? You mean the intelligence that Rumsfield ordered so that it would look like there were weapons of mass destruction? Lol new word for you. Whistel blower.
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-papers-whistleblower-daniel-ellsberg-says-that-the-government-has-ordered-the-media-not-to-cover-911/
So you think they shipped of WMDs? LOL Keep thinking that. Hopefully you feel good.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:06pmLOL, remove the imbecile, where are his facts? Besides, he’s just another British idiot socialist!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:40pm@ENDTHEFEDNOW
You are correct and one of the most informed posters on the Blaze.
We Invaded a Sovereign Country without justification.
Any leader that takes our Country’s military into a “War” ( 10-year Campaign ) without the consent of Congress is a War criminal and traitor.
Weapons of Mass Deception.
It was 19 SAUDIA ARABIANS That attacked 3 buildings, Not IRAQIS or IRANIANS.
They Attacked because the Military Industrial Complex set up Military Bases in SAUDIA ARABIA.
We Financed the Taliban, and provided CIA training to them in the 1980′s.
Bin Laden was a friend of the CIA. So was Hussein at one time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQs5hoHW_Qc
It is a FACT that the Global Elite Finance WARS for profit.
Countries need to Borrow money with interest, to fight.
They then need to borrow more money with interest, to rebuild what the war tore down.
Even Farrahkhan knows that the International bankers seized America in 1913, 4 years before we jumped into WWI.
You may hate the man’s Ideologies, People. But he is highly educated.
Report Post »Let him explain the relation between WARS and BANKSTERS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkR1nMw1E0
EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:26pmProbIemSoIver
its people like you that give this country hope. At the end of the day people can disagree on politics, but what me and you throw out there are facts, not speculation. It sounds so crazy to the sheeple but we must keep telling the truth. “in A world of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary idea”
So I will continue to warn people when I meet them. And continue to be ridiculed. As long as we continue to grow in numbers.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:28pmIt was 19 SAUDIA ARABIANS That attacked 3 buildings, Not IRAQIS or IRANIANS.
They Attacked because the Military Industrial Complex set up Military Bases in SAUDIA ARABIA.
We Financed the Taliban, and provided CIA training to them in the 1980′s.
Bin Laden was a friend of the CIA. So was Hussein at one time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQs5hoHW_Qc
It is a FACT that the Global Elite Finance WARS for profit.
Countries need to Borrow money with interest, to fight.
They then need to borrow more money with interest, to rebuild what the war tore down.
Even Farrahkhan knows that the International bankers seized America in 1913, 4 years before we jumped into WWI.
You may hate the man’s Ideologies, People. But he is highly educated.
Let him explain the relation between WARS and BANKSTERS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkR1nMw1E0
Brilliant man.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:02pmNor only were there “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, but they were used against our troops. “Weapons of Mass Destruction” is a term that includes not only nuclear weapons (A bombs and the like) but also radiological weapons (so-called “dirty bombs”), chemical weapons (“poison gas”), and biolgical weapons (such as weaponized anthrax).
An IED (Improvised Explosive Device) employed against our troops in Iraq included as a component of the IED an artillery shell containing Sarin (a varient of “nerve gas”). Thus, a weapon of mass destruction was employed against our troops in Iraq.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:29pmHey chuck if someone invades my country im going to blow them up to. But that makes me sick in the new amerika
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:10pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTER
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Get ready folks, there will be some major news coming out in June about a banking scandal that will make everything else look paltry. This involved high-ups in Washington – - – > Say you heard it here first.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:19pmIn June huh?!? June of this year, next year, or in the next decade… Also, when in June?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:03pmI thought the war was for oil.
Now they claim the war was for money?
Or is it for money & oil?
What will the charge be next week?
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:17pmmoney and power
is there a rule that says there can only be one single motivation?
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:32pmEver since the early 1970′s (post Nixon Shock), the U.S. dollar has been backed by crude oil (whereas formerly it had been backed by gold up until August of 1971)….
So actually, the two entities that you mention here are entirely synonymous with one another (inseparable actually).
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:04pmThe Ancient Egyptians… held Gold as Sacred, because it reminded them of Ra, the Sun God, and it was hard to find. We hold Oil as Sacred, because it runs our Industrial System. Prisoners hold Cigarettes as Value… as do Black Markets. Drugs were once the Currency that the British used in China! If people are Hungry… then it will be Food.
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:08pmIf he had said it was for oil he would have proved he was a leftist nut, instead be must be a Ron Paul nut. Bilderburgers, Bilderburgers!
Report Post »forthepeople
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:10pm$ MONEY $ …It’s all about the money in the end after the dust settles . Oil , gold, land , power, contracts and influence boiled down to the end product $ MONEY $ !
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:51pmI would hesitate to point a finger at specific people a charge degrees of culpability because, frankly, I don’t know, but it’s been well established that certain international banking entities have been funding BOTH sides of bloody wars for CENTURIES. I think we‘d all be foolish if we didn’t at least consider the possibility that these banking entities would welcome or even start conflicts for the purpose of profit.
The best and simplest way to guard against a private bank deliberately steering us into debt is to END THE FED’s exclusive charter to print our currency. The we can all take our tinfoil hats off and go back about our business.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:10pmIs there a rule that says there can only be one single motivation?
No but the antiwar left lacks credibility, when they said the war was for one thing & then keep changing their tune. If there had been no recession & no TARP I doubt the left would have charged JP Morgan or any other bank. Seems more like grasping at leaves than any investigative work that would lead to charges.
It is a war for money like it was a war for oil. The duly constituted (read elected for the slow people) government asked for bids for production of Iraqi Oil fields. Many many foreign countries bid for the oil production rights & won. If the Left had pressed it was a war for oil they would have been bi atch slapped. So now they grasp for something else.
Funny how no one on the left brings up OKC bombing in conjunction with Terry Nichols. He made all those trips to the Phillipines without his wife. The same Phillipines where Mohammed Ata trained at a flight school. But is doesn‘t fit the left’s mantra to turn over in stones to investigate that.
Sorry SOY but the jury is still out on you. Don’t know if you are a Ron Paul libertarian or a leftist. There doesn’t seem to be much difference most days.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:35pmthats fine – i dont care about your judgement or the jury’s decision. I especially dont trust people who post often without a symbol
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:08pmYup concentrate on the post icon (or lack thereof), not on the facts of the actual oil leases.
Cuz if I had a snazzy icon of a founding father that would give my arguments more weight lulz!
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:46pmWalkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:08pm
Yup concentrate on the post icon (or lack thereof), not on the facts of the actual oil leases.
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You still don’t get it do you?…..
You’ll need to understand this first………then this will become crystal clear to you.
Oil leases are pretty irrelevant in this particular situation.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:54am“JP Morgan paid him off for the Iraq War,”
Ya right. If Goldman Sachs had been in the news, David Lawley-Wakelin would have screamed, Goldman Sachs. He might not be crazy but he has a weak mind & faulty thinking. But what esle do you expect of a leftist?
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:45pmBlair said he never had a discussion with JPMorgan about that perhaps so at least not directly, his people did. Come on, people who think we went in there for WMD’s are stupid this was about oil and geopolitical positioning and to increase the profits of the military industrial complex in which the likes of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are a part of. This guy isn’t lying or crazy you may not like what he said or even agree because it tarnishes your idea of what this country is. Libya, Syria, and Iran is next who comes after that??
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:17pmHeyJim55
Find out where the chemical weapons came from that were offloaded at the Newport Weapons Depot in west central Indiana… Considering, it is illegal for the U.S. Government to hire the manufacture of these weapons inside or outside the U.S…
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:19pmheyjim55
Hey loser, find out what Terry Nichols was doing in the Phillipines. prove that WMDs were not shipped to Syria from Iraq. Until then I won’t believe a thing you say without verifying. I’ll just think you are some troll who normally environs are the Huffpo.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:53amThere has never been a perfect crime God is always watching. Every theft every lie every murder all sins lay open before him and ultimatly to him all must answer. No sin shall remain hidden but it shall be revealed. Only God knows mans heart.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:33amIsn’t it true, that Tony Blair along with Prince Charles and his father Prince Phillip.. would like to see the population decreased?? Just thinking it should be a crime! Seems like I read about it sometime or another.
Report Post »MetalPatriot
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:31amNot reall happy with the title of this article. “Whacky” assumes there’s no credibility to the accusation and influences the reader to assume the same.
It’s not unreasonable that JP Morgan (the Federal Reserve) would pay off top politicians. War costs money, but ulitmately, it’s for gain (profit).
This is not meant to be offensive to our Veterans…only to the politicians, bankers, & crooks pulling the strings.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:00pmWhat if Obama tipped of the Taliban about the wearabouts of seal team 6? To pay them off and gain favor for this group taking out Bin Ladin? Huh think about that. Just thinking.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:02pmJP Morgan (the Federal Reserve)
Did you mean to say JP Morgan = ‘the Federal Reserve’
That is mighty rude. You left out all the other banks.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:30amWouldn’t surprise me a bit…
After all, Tony Blair has reportedly been seen in attendance at the 1993 Bilderberg Conference in Athens, Greece:
http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#was
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:58amName an organization where the top politicians & industrialists meet & the far left & the far right WILL ALWAYS say that their is a conspiracy.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:27amTony Blair is a member of the Fabian Society and presided over the ceremony which restored the Fabian window at the LSE in 2006 after it was recovered……
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:51amTrue… which should scare one about his Friends: Bush & Soros!
With a Media involved in Propaganda: Nothing is… as it seems!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:19amWould any US President set up means to Bribe support from Allies?
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:18amLord Justice Brian Leveson has been selected to be the arbiter of Truth in the investigation into an unhealthy alliance between global banks, the media, Western governments, and war profiteering.
Lord Justice Brian Leveson.
These people are becoming brazen.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:52am““JPMorgan paid him off for the Iraq War,” he said. “Three months after he invaded Iraq, they held up the Iraq bank for 20 billion. He was then paid $6 million every year and still is from JPMorgan, six months after he left office. The man is a war criminal!”
Nothing would surprise me anymore. If it isnt our leaders thrashing the constitution and the rule of law – its our banks going around the world leveraging their power to get what they want
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:23amWow, you mean that President 0bama’s favorite financial CEO Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan bought a war? That is so wild, why would a financial organization want to start such a war? Please, feel free to explain in detail
Report Post »Well, Dimon was an 0bama favorite up until recently. But, we really know that his recent disdain of Dimon is just a wink and a nod at a blind horse. It‘s just until this blows over I have to berate you for my base’s consumption, but please send me your money for my campaign. We’ll be freinds again later just like Putin and me after I am re-elected.
AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:51amHe is a war criminal and should be put behind bars along with Bush and Obama.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:23amYou have a point. Maybe you should wear a hat.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:00pm“You have a point. Maybe you should wear a hat.”
Very nice & on target
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:39pmAUsername
I have to assume that you are a troll or are ignorant. Usama claimed credit for 911. the Taliban refused to extrradite hi,m. They proposed that Usama be tried under Islamic law in Pakistan. Tthey harbored a mass murderer & then they have the audacity of hope to tell Americans that they or their coreligionist will try him rather than us.
They refused to extradite him, so we invaded. Now according to the backstabbing wing of the Republican (Colin Powel) & Democrat parties if you break it, you own it. Since we overthrew the illegitimate Taliban government, we were obligated per the backstabber Colin Powel to nation build (”You break it you own it.”. Well, were is Colin Powel now?
You see ausername or whatever name you are posting under now, you are a large part of the problem.
Troll on my worthless son.
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