Alastair Campbell in emotional defence of Tony Blair on Iraq - The Andrew Marr Show - BBC One

[chrish12345]

stick this cunt in prison with Blair

[Yusef100]

if i ever have the misfortune to see alistair campbell on the street, i'll make sure he fully understands that he was in part responsible for the murder of nearly one million iraqi men, women and children.

[derdriui]

A true psychopath.

[person9144]

Alistair Campbell is very loyal. He has at least one positive characteristic.

[derdriui]

@person9144 his own arse is on the line.

[felix3840]

@person9144 Campbell's defence of Blair has nothing to do with loyalty. He, too, is a war criminal, just like Blair. If/when Blair is brought to justice for his crimes, Campbell will be alongside him in the dock. His role during Blair's illegal wars was the equivalent of those of Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher during Hitler's.

[alastair672]

pooor him what about the familys and soldiers who have been effected by these assholes

[IsMyNameYourName]

It's almost as though some people think life under Saddam was all roses. People are happy to point out all the people who died because of this war, and all the people who have their families and lives destroyed. But it is as though people are completely ignoring what went on daily under the genocidal fascistic dictator that was overthrown. Did he not murder his own people? Killing masses, whether based on political views, ethnicity or even just to fulfill his own sadistic desires. No one cares?

[derdriui]

@IsMyNameYourName This argument is so illogical. 1) There being a dictatorship is no excuse to invade a country. 2) The UN sanctions, after US urging, are the reason why things like child mortality were high under Saddam. 3) 75% of Iraq's oil has been divvied up between multi-national corporations. 5) Saddam was a secular dictator. By killing him, the Coalition of the Willing destabilized whatever there was and attracted the fundamentalists, plunging the country into a civil war. Need I go on?

[hopeandjoywithlove]

Alistair Cambell the Master of Emotional Spin . Andrew Marr is right People have died & still are Dying because of these lies. Many metric tons of Depleted Uranium Weapons used during this war which many people including military personnel are still suffering from the radioactive effects. Blair & his administration are War Criminals & they will get no sympathy from me & many others. They should ALL be tried for War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity.

[lonelysymphony]

Poor Alistair Campbell. He had to go through an inquiry. Boo fucking hoo. He started an illegal war based on lies. He should be fucking ecstatic he hasn't been charged with war crimes.

[dancebaby808]

@lonelysymphony exactly right. because of their decisions, headed by Bush, there are 2 million orphans in Iraq today -- these are children who will grow up with no parents, no family, and thus, no hope for a better future. does this man have the right to get emotional about all the inquiries? can he sleep at night knowing that he is indirectly responsible for the stunning loss of life in Iraq? perhaps he should visit the orphanages there to see with his own eyes, what they have done.

[thisisUll]

I have no sympathy for the blood dripping from this criminal and Tony Blairs hands.

Bamboozled us into war, hang them.

[TheZanipolo]

LABOUR LIES AND SPIN

[TheConciseStatement]

Even Malcolm Tucker wouldn't stoop to this.

[max1xxx]

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Alastair Campbell upset and emotional ?

The Sultans of Swing"..

(.in).Dire Straits

You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right

A-Men

Britain's first medical soap, which was also the first of the nation's twice-weekly serials, (airing on Tuesday's and Friday's), 'Emergency-Ward 10'

started life as 'Calling Nurse Roberts', a six

[max1xxx]

Intellectuals solve problems, but only a geniuses prevent them

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

- Albert Einstein

The truth concerning the passions, in the feelings experienced in the given circumstances, that is what our intelligence demands of a dramatist

The Book of Eli-Ali .........Camp Stanislavski‏ method acting

.If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

[wigiman33]

ive been through alot he says......try watching your whole family blow apart, then pick up their pieces.

[wigiman33]

he shud get an oscar!

[ImperialPizarro]

He deserves a Razzie Award

[Fozma]

This is unbelievable. What kind of bizarre form of morality does he think he is appealing to?

The fact that Blair etc can get away with this really makes me wonder about the conditions under which we can hold political leaders responsible for their actions. I think the Chilcot inquiry has shown us that the law (if that is institution of our society's morality) is not clear enough on this point.

[lookouthumanitarian]

crook

[texaspete66]

this man should be in jail. crocodile tears.

[Nintendomanwill]

It's like Nuremberg-light.

These people don't understand that when they send forces into a nation whose bellicosity had been largely a posture to foreign aggression, ie US aggression, that people will question the need for that war and will have no answer for the death and waste it unceasingly causes. Some thick people were in power in the UK and US circa2003 and they are learning the value of peace the hard way.

[MODTRASH]

Ha Ha, Sniveling little creep! Roll on the election!

[vancarbus]

he says you cant prove that amount of people died, maybe is right. So I say if its not 600,000 people, I give him the benefit of the doubt, and call it 300,000. Dont know how this people sleep at night

[Islandretreat]

Papal Knight of Malta Tony Blair is a war criminal. All our Politicians are faithful servants of the Jesuits of Rome. The Knights of Malta were formed roughly a thousand years ago to lauch Crusades for Rome exactly as Jesuit puppet "Knight of Malta" Tony Blair did in Iraq. Romanism = Babylonianism. It's a Papal Crusade and they are rebuilding Babylon as we speak (Dubai etc).

[Prunesqualer]

When we invaded Iraq, our policy was that we should not to make an official count of Iraqi casualty figures. This decision was disgraceful. To now hear Campbell call into question charges about the casualty figures (which international bodies have had to put together based on limited statistical evidence) with "you can't prove that" is frankly sick making.

[GermanShepardd]

Blair and Alastair Campbell should be bathroom buddies in prison. Why are they not both in jail?

[muckypuffin]

dick

[max1xxx]

Intellectuals solve problems, but only a geniuses prevent them

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

- Albert Einstein

The truth concerning the passions, in the feelings experienced in the given circumstances, that is what our intelligence demands of a dramatist

The Book of Eli-Ali .........Camp Stanislavski‏ method acting

.If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

[max1xxx]

Alastair Campbell upset and emotional ?

The Sultans of Swing"..

(.in)...Dire Straits

You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords

Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing

And an old guitar is all he can afford

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

The Right Nobility HonourableThe wrong Honourable

A-Men

[spacehopperballs]

I am "Agnostic" - but if there is a god - this man with all his shit talk is in big trouble.

As he should be.

[shakzzzz]

What other side of the story!!!

Oh the 1 where with no evidence they went to war on the basis of judgement that took just a couple of hours.

I JUST DON't know what 2 think anymore, liars showing they are truthful and vice versa.

The inquiry was a shambles, I knew what was going to happen anyway my cousin made me watch it, he just kept on spinning and convincing himself he was right !

Woooooppp and he also added Iran NEXT!!! LOL I don't know what to say anymore....

[StuntManPliskin]

what a 3 minute question dodge

[soupdragon78]

What a shite actor. I'd put him up against the wall merely for the cheek of such a poor performance.

[boxedwater]

(continued from previous comment, was too long to fit into one post)

Michael Howard was spot on. On Newsnight, he said directly to Campbell that he was part of the problem in modern politics. Campbell masquerades as someone with integrity but he's the antithesis of what politics should be.

[boxedwater]

Even if he had a full breakdown, Campbell does not deserve sympathy. He's been through nothing compared to the consequences of operation 'Tony Blair legacy'. There's no patch you can add later, this is not a game. His boss could not show a shred of humanity at the inquiry. Just keep spinning and convince yourself you are right, fuck everyone else.

[HipHopGaming]

Eastenders here we come!

[Gosu117]

Good old marr. :)

[odemevol]

he wasnt really upset there at all, I've studied body language for ten years - it looks more like he was trying to let a silent fart .

[Yehbytheway]

I thought he was gonna start singing 'My way'.

What a lying tosser

[LiteWaiter]

Even Tony Blair is a better actor!

[LiteWaiter]

That is upset?

It's first grade drama school:

SAY the word "upset" to create the stage for a suggestion of drama.

[willalburg2]

never seen a man get like that about another man unless it's a son , a father , a bother , or getting good butt sex

[JekyllBoote]

Marr pretends to question him toughly, but (obviously under orders from his Millbank/BBC/Common Purpose bosses) allows Campbell to play for time with a display of fake emotion (and thus evade what is meant to look like a direct, probing question).

No professional broadcaster would normally allow such lengthy spells of "dead" airtime. By the end of it, we're meant to have forgotten that Campbell didn't actually answer Marr's "tough" question.

This video clip deserves to become a classic.

[JekyllBoote]

With friends like "Rod" Lyne is it any wonder that this reptilian man (and his villainous erstwhile boss) is off the hook?

[tommydoing]

This man is a cunt

[ASDAmadjohn]

as I stated before,though my post didn't get on here for some reason, look at Campbell's illuminati pyramid hand-signals..new world order scum

[JekyllBoote]

Yes, pure Common Purpose, NLP stuff!

[ASDAmadjohn]

who ever gave me thumbs-down for my comment obviously haven't got the slightest clue about the illuminati or secret signs

[afattyyumbum]

Blair should give all the millions he has made in compensation to all the people's families he has killed or injured, he would be in debt to eternity

[codetyrant]

There is all the headlines and hype about this Iraq war inqiury, but no matter how many times this man tries to win public sympathy politicians are and always will be at this time scumbags!!

[kriminalcollective]

He keeps talking about how people don't want to hear his side of the story, then when prompted to provide it, he declines.

It's the classic politician dodging a question; Marr asks him whether Blair mislead people, and gets an answer about something completely different.

[redk78]

Campbell and Blair are war criminals & I pray for the day when they are in the dock (it will happen).!!

Campbell wants to consider a mother sheltering her kids when the electricity, water and gas has been knocked out and all they can here is F16 going over head droping MOABs. He wants to think of that when he's feeling a little pressure for some po faced journalist. Campbell, Blair and the rest of you who voted for the war - you have the blood 600.000 on your hand. I hope you never sleep easy!

[carrotsoupify]

For once he was left wondering what to say, let's face it there wasn't much he could say without admitting that he and TB lied to us all, but he covered his moment of indecision by claiming that he became emotional. What rubbish, look at how heavily he is breathing as the question is asked. The man was caught out and covered it. It was a cynical performance from a slick and consummate professional."

[trashysinatra]

This man is a natural born educator.

Earlier in the same interview he stated that the public can tell if a person is lying.

And then he gave us this superb example.

A masterclass.

[JekyllBoote]

Yeah, but as an actor he wouldn't pass the audition for the Skegness Amateur Players.

[caggles1]

I don't think he was getting emotional at all, he went a little blank under the questioning and probably panicked cos he knew there was no good answer. I'm surprised to hear people saying he was 'blubbing' - were you watching the same interview!!?

[calicheSCOT]

Oh god, I think i just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[heliam]

Campbell knew he should have answered that Blair lied, so he dodged the question. The man is a fraud.

[doodydude234]

Years ago Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair destroyed what small amount of faith I had left in British Politics. The arrogance, the lies, the constant spin. I now hate them for it.

[capricious71]

Tony Blair is not an honourable man and neither is this creep.

[StanleyBiggleswade]

I think Mr Campbell is as honourable as Mr Blair!

Sorry! I meant, horrible!!!

[mannatuu]

Reminds me of a Scottish Psychopath and game player I used to know ...when he was in a hole ( of his own making ) his last recourse was to putting out the same emotional display as this character...get him and his crownie Blair banged up...and surcharged right to the hilt for the damage they've done ....give em jobs cleaning toilets....thats about all they're good for .

[wayzotoichi]

'Flogging a dead horse'?.. err, is that what falsely 'justified' war means to you? Can't believe my ears, prior to the staged delay (to compose a downtrodden look!) he had the hide to dispute the mortality figures! What people ARE interested in is why so many died, when the reasons for war were falsely stated, to oblige parliament to support Blair. Campbell was the spin-doctor behind this. Manipulative creep, if you ask me. I wouldn't waste my spit on his book. He DOES have blood on his hands.

[czdavid1]

Pussy cat interviewer makes Alistair C waiver.....

Labour must be upto something.

[AnEnemy100]

Mr Campbell seeking victim status. Poor little thing. Still got both his arms though...

[324wilson]

God, I wish that our Queen still had power to execute people like Blair!

[codetyrant]

324wilson, well said :)

[WeShallFightOn]

Boo hoo! I Know where i'd love to send this pathetic little man, The Tower of London via traitors gate!

[4alloulou]

- Blair did mis-lead Parliment.

- "Honourable man"?? That doesn't answer the question... it's a plea for forgiveness if you ask me.

- People are wanting the truth not a set-up because they've already been set-up through lies that Tony Blair and Geore W. Bish told to the world.

- "you can't prove those" the number of deaths? Is he expecting them to be zero? Zero deaths?... we rain bombs, including depeleted uranium... and he expects zero deaths?

- No mention of DAVID KELLY.

[thatfungguy]

ohh thats depressing, how about a joke to lighten the mood:

children's teeth are never friends for long, there always falling out

[ayatollahrocknrolla]

malcolm tucker wouldn't have got emotional.

[bobzilla211]

he would have faked it if he thought it would help though...

[bobzilla211]

sure, 'emotional'. campbell is a true machiavellian, this is a breathtakingly cynical performance.

[vinnyflintoff]

and whats wrong with being machiavellian?. People who are machiavellian & shrewd generally get what they want. i rather have a machiavellian politician than a naive one. Unfortunately we have to put up with a naive and a gullible politician like obama here, who cant achieve anything. Hes a nice guy & i like his personality, but he cant get anything done.

[bobzilla211]

what's wrong with being machiavellian? well for a start it leads to little things like fabricating wars just for shits and giggles and then having to spend years justifying them.

all politicians have degrees of machiavelli in them but the ones who are ruthlessly, nakedly self serving give you no basis to vote for them. who knows what their agenda is, if they even have one beyond 'gain power'? obama could be more unilateral and less naive but that doesn't mean he has to be a lying scumbag.

[94asm]

One word, YUCK.

[warney99]

tony blair stopped a dictator, so why all the fuss? he did a good thing, he stopped a man from doing what Hitler did, genocide

[JekyllBoote]

He destabilised the balance of power in one of the most volatile regions on earth for the foreseeable future, all the while stirring up a hornets' nest (and ensuring the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and military personnel in short order), and lied (and flagrantly defied international law) in order to do so.

That's what "all the fuss" is about.

Now get back to Millbank and await further orders from your NWO/Common Purpose/New Labour masters.

[Juicer63]

fucking right there is a score to settle campbell. you and your crew led the west into an illegal war to serve your corporate masters. all based on lies misinformation and propaganda.

[Juicer63]

tony blair is an honorable man? he has set the world to war against each other and now is driven in limousines on the banquet circuit charging £££££££££££££££££££££ for his "expertise". at last people may see that socialism is not of the people for the people rather of the political elite for the political elite.

[bobzilla211]

you're an idiot there is nothing socialist about new labour.

[Juicer63]

bobzilla you are the idiot my friend you know nothing of the definition of fabian socialism which is what new labour most certainly is. now get back to your room and finish your colouring in homework. fool.

[bobzilla211]

incorrect. firstly fabians are just a faction of the party that are not represented at all by those in power. secondly they are better described as social democrats than socialists. thirdly there is nothing fabian about cutting inheritance tax and capital gains tax, cutting tax and regulations on corporations, privatising and applying PFIs to everything you possibly can, all the while crawling up the ass of big business and figures like rupert murdoch.

[Juicer63]

bob do some research before you make claim to knowing what you are on about. tony blair was the architect of "new labour". and is indeed a member of the fabian society. as prime minister he was the conductor of the orchestra that was his government and its ministers and policies. government has been playing fabian socialism not just under new labour but for decades. the socialism the elites want is in effect control over all resources and rationing of these resources to the people.

[Juicer63]

you are right bob. i apologise for my misunderstanding of the whole situation. good luck.

[wotuchatbout]

@ Juicer63 I had wrongly jumped to the same conclusions on this as you, until bob cleared it all up for us:)

[JekyllBoote]

Too bad "bob" removed his apparently persuasive clarification before most of us had the chance to read it.

I wonder what is really going on here.

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

Spot on. Anyone who claims New Labour are socialists are fucking morons with an agenda.

[scotlandizdabest]

Very difficult to watch, doesn't Campbell suffer from depression?

[JekyllBoote]

He's clearly as mad as a box of frogs, just like his grinning, spinning master.

He should be in a padded cell in Broadmoor, not the corridors of power.

[ECTBWHO]

: P

[Juicer63]

give this ham an oscar! al gore got one for his expert lies so why shouldn't the unelected campbell with so much power at no. 10 during the war years. spinmaster campbell, blair, brown et al should be given fair trials then locked up for the rest of their lives whilst we try to make peace with the enemies they have made for us. 2 million marched for no war. these bastards made us pay for their corporate masters benefit and then lie their way out of accountability. try them fairly then jail them.

[JekyllBoote]

An Oscar? His acting skills wouldn't win him the part of an incidental Beefeater in an amateur production of The Yeomen Of The Guard in Penzance!

[dookie4finger]

lol

[qprjamie]

He's a PR man, he knew exactly what he was doing. He couldn't answer the question, so decided to 'weep', and thus get media coverage praising him for having a 'human side'.

[JekyllBoote]

But Marr was clearly under orders to allow Campbell free rein to play for time with this frankly embarrassingly unconvincing display of fake emotion.

Campbell should be jailed, Marr sacked and the BBC closed down for a root-and-branch purge of NWO/Common Purpose/New Labour/Cameroon types.

[herdownfallawaits]

@JekyllBoote

That isn't an overreaction at all.

[JekyllBoote]

No. Only about 600,000 dead thanks to this man and his ex-boss.

Nothing to see here - move along, move along!

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

Fuck off with your NWO shite, it's getting boring now.

[JekyllBoote]

What an articulate and considered response!

If you're any indication of the level of courtesy, intellectual charity and general intelligence of New Labour, then of course I retract every one of my previous remarks and will never say anything along their lines ever again.

You may congratulate yourself that your brilliant political rhetoric ("fuck off with your NWO shite, it's getting boring now") has utterly persuaded me and others of the error of our ways, and we are now willing converts.

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

Why would I waste my time bothering to try and convince someone who is so obviously removed from rational thinking? Get back to reading your David Icke/illuminati rubbish and stop spamming this video with it.

[JekyllBoote]

Well, you started it.

If "fuck off with your NWO shite" is an example of "rational thinking" I'm rather glad to be removed from it. Incidentally, where did I mention David Icke or the Illuminati? Don't put words into my mouth - this is a desperate stunt of someone who has no real argument. As for "spamming", I would suggest that people who use foul language and make unsubstantiated accusations are far more guilty.

I would suggest you take a couple of paracetemol and have a good lie-down.

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

How does "Well, you started it" relate to any of my post?

Where did you mention illuminati? Well you agreed with ASDAmadjohn's post ('mad' being the key word) and usually those 'topics' go hand in hand with people who won't shut up about the "NWO".

Foul language haha. Speaking of desperation: you're trying your hardest to take the high-ground here, aren't you? My accusations were perfectly substantiated: your comments are still here for all to see - this video has nothing to do with the NWO.

[JekyllBoote]

It relates to it because - as far as your exchange with me is concerned - you did indeed initiate (that's "start" in plain language, in case you're wondering) it.

I don't have to take the high ground here, since I'm not the one apologising for a hired liar who helped a power-drunk maniac to send over half-a-million people to their deaths.

As for Campbell being "nothing to do with the NWO" - you might believe that; I couldn't possibly comment.

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

"Don't put words into my mouth - this is a desperate stunt of someone who has no real argument."

Oh dear, someone's proven themselves a hypocrite already. Find me a post where I've apologised for Blair? I fucking detest both of those war-mongering twats, but I don't need conspiratory bollocks to come to that conclusion.

You couldn't possibly comment? Could've fooled me...

[JekyllBoote]

You could have disagreed with my "conspiratory bollocks" (I think you mean "conspiratorial", BTW) in a far more courteous and measured manner, without the gratuitous swearing.

You could then have explained your own opinions of Campbell, Blair and Iraq. But you didn't. Until now.

And how and where exactly have I proved myself a hypocrite? Since you were attacking me for condemning Campbell and Blair, it was a reasonable inference on my part to conclude that you supported them.

[TheSnotrag2009]

throw tony blair in jail and hang him like they did to saddam hussein. yeah! woot! tony blair ruined great britain. how can u trust a pot head, eh? lol

[saffie1990]

omg alistair campbell is blairs secret lover LOL it was never george bush !!!!

[JekyllBoote]

Quite possibly. although I think Gordon Brown was his real boyfriend.

[PiperTheGreatX]

i hate arsehole presenters/hosts that never let someone answer of explain themselves

[whoiszizou]

TONY BLAIR IS THE BEST

[quietman18]

He should be crying for the tens of thousands who have died and were injured in Iraq, not for himself or Blair.

[mafiagranny]

Hello i'm Andrew Marr, I have big long arms, massive ears and a wide mouth.