Tony Bliar.........

I only managed to catch snippets of Bliar's questioning at the Chilcott Enquiry yesterday but in the evening the news channels dedicated hours to a de-construction of his evidence.

Undoubtedly, Bliar is a phenomenally intelligent man. Unfortunately for him he's a also a complete egomaniac.

Quite obviously he fails to see any wrong whatsoever in the Iraq war. He batted out half-truth after half-truth, twisting evidence laughably claiming that George W Bush's motive of regime change in Iraq was the same as his (apparent and claimed) motive of stopping Saddam Hussein and his WMDs, just said a bit differently.

Well hang on a minute. A million people in Britain marched against this war. The EU was against this war. NATO was against this war. The UN was against this war. All of the Foreign Office lawyers said that a sojourn in Iraq was illegal. Even Lord Goldsmith (who had been created a lifelong peer by Bliar in 1999) the Attorney General, who was a close friend of Bliar, was against it before he inexplicably changed his mind. Members of his cabinet like Clare Short and Robin Cook who stood up to Bliar were boxed into a corner and forced out.

And this dictatorial type of behaviour was all done in the name of bringing so-called democracy to Iraq!

Bliar is a complete disgrace. He had an opportunity, at the end of the day, to express regret for the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq, many of whom had friends and relatives watching him give his evidence, and he failed to take it. Indeed, he rubbed salt in their wounds by stating he would do exactly the same again.

I just hope that one day Bliar is truly held to account and responsible for his actions. If he had been a President of Venezuela, North Korea or Iran and done what he did he would either be in the Hague now or buried 6 feet under with rope burns on his broken neck..........