Former UK prime minister is tainted by Iraq war and his achievements for quartet are negligible, signatories of letter say
BY Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
The Guardian, Monday 23 June 2014
A group of former British ambassadors have joined a campaign calling for Tony Blair
to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy after his recent
attempt to "absolve himself" of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.
The letter, organised by the makers of George Galloway's film The Killing of Tony Blair,
says the 2003 invasion of Iraq was to blame for the rise of
"fundamentalist terrorism in a land where none existed previously".
The
signatories, led by Blair's former ambassador to Iran Sir Richard
Dalton, describe the former prime minister's achievements as Middle East
envoy as "negligible".
Other former diplomats to sign the letter
are Oliver Miles, who was ambassador to Libya when diplomatic relations
were severed in 1984 after the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, and
Christopher Long, ambassador to Egypt between 1992-95.
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