

In addition to facing intense criticism for Britain's involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and for backing brutal dictatorships around the world, Blair was also condemned for joining the devastating 1999 NATO air war against Yugoslavia. troops withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and occupation, Blair blasted what he called the "tragic, dangerous, unnecessary" American "abandonment" of the country. Tony Blair should be arrested for taking Britain to war on lie and causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people, including our own brave service men. "Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honor, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen," the petition asserts.īlair also sent thousands of troops to fight in the U.S.-led coalition war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, a conflict in which over 200,000 people were killed and millions more were displaced.

For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes." "He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent civilian lives and servicemen in various conflicts. "Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the Constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation’s society," the petition states. while Assange, who exposed war crimes,faces extradition & lifetime in prison.” Petition to revoke Tony Blair’s knighthood hits 1m signatures/Labor MP Burgon:”Says a lot about what’s wrong w/our system when 1 of leading architects of Iraq war.is honoured.
