A Year On: Blair Still in Denial

“What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq and until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel”

“To the non-Muslims of Britain, you may have wondered what you have done to deserve this. You are those who have voted in your government, who have in turn and still continue to this day continue to oppress our mothers, children, brothers and sisters from the east to the west in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Chechnya. Your government has openly supported the genocide of over 150,000 innocent Muslims in Fallujah”

Surely an independent public inquiry is absolutely vital if we are serious about preventing another 7-7 from occurring. Blair's refusal to accept that British foreign policy had anything to do with the attacks is getting tiresome.

Tanweer's justification for targeting civilians is interesting - punishing a people for voting in a government. Now where have we heard that before?

Hasn't the world, Britain included, imposed economic sanctions on the Palestinian people for voting in Hamas?

Hasn't the international community, Britain included, colluding in the daily Israeli slaughter of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of civilian infrastructures and the kidnapping of elected Palestinian MPs and ministers, all because they had the audacity to exercise democracy?

Didn't Britain itself yesterday vote against a resolution deploring Israel's military operations in Palestinian territories as a breach of international humanitarian law?

So when Shehzad Tanweer sees that the leader of his country consistently adopts a "end justifies the means" policy and condones the slaughter of civilians for voting in a government deemed hostile to his interests, then why does it come as any surprise that he himself should feel that such a policy is justifiable?

Wake up Mr Blair, you are leading your country to destruction.