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We have been inundated with emails following our interview on Britain's foreign policy with the Prime Minister. Read a selection of them below.
Please would you ask the PM why he finds telling the truth so difficult.
Richard Dargan
That Her Majesty's Government can keep its leader Blair in place for so long after his Iraq and Middle East policy has been seen to be so disastrous, is simply a condemnation of our parliamentary system and a shameful stain on his party.
David Bateman
Disgraceful that this man is given airtime to excuse his war crimes.
Jack
There is a world of difference Mr. Blair between what you "believe" and reality.
Kathleen O'Neill
The man is detached! I dont know what his advisors are telling him but his perception of what is going on in Iraq is deluded and inexplicable. The man has lost all touch with reality.
Ian Smith
Mr Blair's mistakes and terrible miscalculations over Iraq give him no authority to speak on the subject. It would be more informative to interview a teenage general studies student. Living in his world of make believe and denial is particularly destructive for our own democracy.
Alastair Partington
How stupid does Blair think the British people are???
We KNOW he lied about Iraq.
We know he coninues to lie about it and the reasons we are REALLY there.
I only hope that like the cash for questions issue, someone within the police has the courage to arrest him and charge him with war crimes when he leaves office, and that he stands trial in the Hague.
Jonathan Adams
Hoorah! John tells it like it is AGAIN to our illustrious lame duck.
Give Blair one thing, though, he's excellent at waffling on to cover his embarrassment and lack of credibility.
John you must live for ever - otherwise we are all doomed.
Andrew Sutherland
The man is in denial.
He will not even admit to himself that it was not a good idea for the most hated state in the region (USA) and the ex-colonial power (UK) to invade Iraq.
The act of invasion was tantamount to throwing a can of petrol onto a smouldering rag. The resultant conflagration is a consequence of the petrol being thrown, you can not blame it on the rag!
Peter Lewis
So, it now appears that Blair and Bush went into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussain as a purely humanitarian effort to save, for example, the Marsh Arabs.
So the justification was weapons of mass destruction that could hit us in 45 minutes and saving ethnic minorities in Iraq.
Does this man not credit the British public with any intelligence? For goodness sake Blair, Al Quaeda did not operate in Iraq before you and Bush took us in. Can you not just admit that you got it badly wrong and leave office with a modicum of dignity and respect from the British people for at least standing up and being counted?
Tony Hill
Such a wonderful interview, so far, with John Humphreys, asking all the questions that we all want to ask. Just superb.
Mrs Atkin
John H should point out that if Blair says 'responsibility rests with insurgents' for the violence, he could also say that 'responsibility rests with burglars' when crime figures rise in Britain.
Nick Adams
Thank you today Programme. I have only listened to the first part of this interview, and through Johns excellent interview Technique, I am now convinced that Tony Blair should step down immediately as Prime Minister. He is a man who accepts no responsibility for his actions, actions that have life or death implications for millions. I am not sure listening now that he was ever fit to be prime minister.
Tony Davy
I am listening to the interview of Tony Blair with increasing frustration. He appears to be in complete denial about his government's responsibility for the violence in Iraq - either that or he is lying to avoid it. Up to now I have thought that an independent review of the government's role in Iraq would have been a waste of money and time that would achieve nothing. However, having heard the unbelievable denials of Mr Blair this morning, even against the judgements of his own ambassador and general, I now strongly agree with Douglas Hurd that it is essential to have a formal review, if only to prevent Tony Blair preserving his credibility over Iraq in the face of what I think will be overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Richard Rabone
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