What did Tony Blair carry with him in his quiver for the Libyans? Why did he choose to visit Libya before his forced outing from Ten Downing Street?
Personally, I do not exactly know what he wanted by coming here. However, I do totally know that his visit was popularly unwelcome, or it was so at least amongst those segments of the society who closely follow the impact of his policies on the Arab homeland and the extent of the heinous crime in which he personally took part and committed against this homeland.
Blair was not only kicked out as Prime Minister but his party also forced him to abandon its leadership and to disappear from a political life in which his presence constituted a dilemma, especially at foreign policy level, that has proved to be rather costly at all levels as acknowledged by London's ruling cliques.
Did Blair come over as an agent for arms dealers? Or did he come here to promote his rotten merchandise to defend his position in the killing of a million Iraqis and forcing four millions more to be refugees? Perhaps he came to lend support and solidarity to the killer nurses, or perhaps to accompany them before his next meeting with the Vatican's Pope. What did he come here to do in a country that it had not seen any good from him?
We would not speak of the tragedy of Palestine and his country's role in expropriating it away from its people and surrendering to a punch of strangers, nor would we speak of his country's role in dividing the Arab homeland and booby trapping its borders with crises, nor would we speak about his country's destructive role in the Islamic world.
We would only speak of his personal role in Palestine, Iraq and Libya. In the case of the latter, the hand of Blair's representative to the UN Security Council in the support of unfair sanctions against the Libyan people for over a decade was only second to that of the American representative.
Blair was the instigator behind the USA invasion and destruction of Iraq as well as the setting up of the conditions for its division, stealing its resources and the disintegrating of its sects that we have thought the modern state has succeeded in neutralizing their differences and securing their choices.
In Palestine and Afghanistan, Blair has been always Bush's shadow as the latter declared war and embargo.
Currently, we are observing Blair's hand and attempts to secure an American-British occupation of Darfur, isolating Iran, pressuring Syria as well as the rude interference in the Lebanese affairs.
Whatever we may try, we will not find a single good deed by Mr. Tony Blair during his ten years in power that could reduces the pain that he has caused and is still causing us, the Arabs.
He was savage, vicious, bloodthirsty, smiles in front of the cameras as he clings his claw in the Arab flesh… How can we like him or welcome him in our homeland?
We will never accept his visit even if he came apologizing… We will only accept it if Palestine is returned back to its people… and Baghdad is returned back to its security and when Iraq, Palestine and Libya received material and moral compensations decades of colonialism, oppression, humiliation, disgrace and dishonor.
The writer is a Libyan columnist who is well known in the Arab world, he is the former chairman of the Libyan Journalists Syndicate and former director of the Libyan news agency JANA. The article was first published in Arabic on 29 May 2007.
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