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Tony [The Pong] Blair

The audacity and greed of former Brit PM Tony Blair knows no bounds.

Having fought the revelation of Blair's pursuit of earning income from questionable sources - and lost - the British MailOnLine [that is, The Daily Mail] editorialises:

"Secret contracts, shady oil deals, foreign multinationals, Middle Eastern rulers and a former prime minister whose cosy relationship with the U.S. was bought with the blood of British soldiers.

Not, sadly, the plot of a racy novel but the true story of Tony Blair after Downing Street (though don’t expect to read it in his impending £4.6million memoirs).

For nearly two years, Mr Blair has been trying to suppress the truth about his advice to a South Korean company that was working on an oil deal in Iraq, and to the Kuwaiti government.

Now Whitehall’s business appointments committee has insisted on transparency, but Mr Blair still won’t explain exactly what services he is providing.

This is deeply troubling. Mr Blair’s greatest commercial asset is his close relationship with America, where many laud him for his support for their wars.

He is profiting from taking Britain into a war in Iraq that much of his country was dead set against, and doing so on the false premise that we were under threat from weapons of mass destruction.

No less profoundly disturbing is the way in which Mr Blair is using his official role as Middle East Envoy to drum up business in the region.

This is doing further damage to his own tainted image, but far worse than that it’s undermining Britain’s already tattered international reputation.

Thanks to Mr Blair we are associated with torture, with the abuse of prisoners, with an invasion under false pretences.

Now we must watch while our former leader prostitutes himself for money.

Mr Blair owes it to himself, and to the millions who voted for him, to stop demeaning the great office he once held."

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