“I have no recollection”

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Tony Blair, prime minister at the time MI6 rendered Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a prominent Libyan dissident, to the Gaddafi regime in 2004, has said he had "no recollection" of the incident. (The Guardian)
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Is this a case of the war criminal Blair using the Oliver North defence or perhaps the first sign that he is following his hero the Grantham Grocer down the road to senile dementia?

One can but hope that it is the latter :)
 
Ooh, this one should be fun. People on here now have to balance the urge to post 'lolstockhausen' with the urge to post something disparaging about Tony Blair....

*popcorn*
 
Disgusting, I'd expect him to remember every single decision made by anyone in his government in great detail throughout his time as PM.
 
stockhausen said:
Is this a case of the war criminal Blair using the Oliver North defence .....................
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Well, well, Blair now a war criminal, whatever will you come up with next? :p The only crime committed was by those who voted him into office. He's as much of a war criminal as you are.
 
Muffin` said:
Based on an article in The Guardian? Or did you listen to WaO?
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The World at One is available HERE, I'll have a listen later.

As to the comedian that suggested that Blair can't be expected to remember every illegal idea he condoned, you may well be right, there is only so much that any one person can be expected to recall . . . perhaps he should consult the copious notes he kept in order to churn out his tedious exculpatory memoirs ;)
 
[TW]Fox;21662218 said:
Disgusting, I'd expect him to remember every single decision made by anyone in his government in great detail throughout his time as PM.
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Sometimes I really don't like you. Sometimes I think you are wonderfully sarcastic and I enjoy your posts. Today is the latter. You make my head hurt :(
 
JRS said:
Ooh, this one should be fun. People on here now have to balance the urge to post 'lolstockhausen' with the urge to post something disparaging about Tony Blair....

*popcorn*
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lolstockhausen is the only choice.

Only as Tony Blair has no place in modern politics, "just like facts have no place in organised religion" (Super Nintendo Chalmers being relevant)
 
stockhausen said:
Is this a case of the war criminal Blair using the Oliver North defence or perhaps the first sign that he is following his hero the Grantham Grocer down the road to senile dementia?

One can but hope that it is the latter :)
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You start spelling the guardian correctly and I'll start taking your posts seriously, deal?
 
JBod said:
You start spelling the guardian correctly and I'll start taking your posts seriously, deal?
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I wish this were Facebook... I need to like this...

To be honest I don't remember what I did 2 days ago, I'm sure he had other important things going on at the time....

kd
 
King Damager said:
I wish this were Facebook... I need to like this...

To be honest I don't remember what I did 2 days ago, I'm sure he had other important things going on at the time....

kd
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To be honest, I suspect that you have never actually done anything worth remembering at any point in your life ;)

Whenever a politician says that they have no recollection of involvement in a criminal activity, what they actually mean is "I don't know what evidence you have in your hands, so I'm not going to commit myself one way or another".
 
stockhausen said:
To be honest, I suspect that you have never actually done anything worth remembering at any point in your life ;)

Whenever a politician says that they have no recollection of involvement in a criminal activity, what they actually mean is "I don't know what evidence you have in your hands, so I'm not going to commit myself one way or another".
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Its so easy for us to sit and snipe from our comfortable sofas armed with an internet brimming with hindsight, isnt it?

I doubt any of us know what its like to actually be there, at the top, having to make numerous decisions about all sorts of things we couldnt even begin to comprehend, every single day, knowing that even the slightest hint of a wrong call will be analysed by nobodies like us on the internet for decades to come.

I don't like Tony Blair. I don't like the Labour party. I never voted for him, nobody voted for Brown and I'm very pleased they are no longer in power.

But that doesn't mean I cannot beleive that whilst Prime Minister of the UK he did what he felt was best for the country. The fact we can now easily google things to help us pick apart his decisions years later with the benefit of knowing what happened AFTER the decisions doesn't change this.
 
Abdel Hakim Belhaj was an opponent of Col. Gaddafi. He and his pregnant wife were kidnapped in Bangkok and ended up in the hands of Gaddafi who just happened to have large oil reserves that we quite fancied getting our hands on. (If you want some further insight into this, have a look HERE)

The only reason that we have any knowledge of this results from papers found following the overthrow of Gaddafi. I doubt that it only ever happened once and no doubt as more convenient regime change occurs, we will hear of more such examples ;)

As to Blair, I am absolutely certain that as ever, no smoking WMD implicating him will ever be found.
 
Your reply appears to address none of the points I made in my post and seems to be just another random example of you talking to yourself :confused:
 
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