Alistair Campbell blubs on the Andrew Marr Show (07.02.10) - TopTellyFan

[Phedrus1975]

Alistair Campbell. The man I just LOVE to hate! I would love to put Alistair Campbell and Jeremy Paxman into a ring, and make them fight to the death for the lives of their families...

[buffett1000]

600,000 DIED. "He has to stand by that decision".

Blair will die with their blood on his hands. THAT is why he's become a catholic - massive guilt and the false belief that some corrupt priest can absolve him.

What a fucking disgrace of a man.

[MrJaysync]

just a complete and utter bastard caught out with nothing to say regards lying for that fucking war that still drags on to this day. FUCK YOU CAMPBELL you cock sucking mother fucker.

[therusher8]

Yes, classic panic attack. He wasn't going to blubber.

[GeorgeReid2009]

what a knob

[felix3840]

Alastair Campbell is a war criminal, so who cares what he thinks about anything? And why is he on TV so often, giving his worthless opinions? Who ever voted for him? His role during Blair's illegal wars was the equivalent of those of Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher during Hitler's.

Alastair Campbell should be in jail for his crimes and hopefully will be one day.

[Birdieupon]

Campbell is not only a moron, but he clearly doesn't know his Shakespeare:

"Tony Blair is an honourable man"

...he REALLY doesn't want to say that, in this context, lol!

[bobeagle007]

CUNT!

[microsoft57]

Campbell, you fucking murdering toe rag. I hope this retard rots in hell.

[freeinwaysyouarenot]

"Ive been through alot with this enquiry".....Tell that to the grieving families, the soldiers with missing limbs and psychological problems, the angry British public who want you to hang from the rafters of Parliament, the hundreds of thousands of dead civiloians and soldiers in Iraq.

You sold the biggest lie of this century, you have no right to claim any grievance because you were called to account for your lies in an enquiry that was a whitewash anyway.

Fuck you Campbell.

[cmcuthbert11]

What a piece of shit he is

[LollieSmith]

Alistair has had to live with mental illness and the threat of a relapse for 20 odd years. On top of this he was the victim of a long stalking campaign from the actress Nicola Pagett

Listen to how his voice changes. When a panic attack the throat tightens and breathing is difficult. He is not crying. he is having a genuine panic attck

[TopTellyFan]

@LollieSmith Oh, stop, you're making ME cry(!) Mental illness? He's just a fucking control freak. He's the man on whom Malcolm Tucker is based. So he's upset? Well, boo-fucking-hoo! The cunt's crying all the way to the bank since first starting in government.

[LollieSmith]

@TopTellyFan so what? he has suceeded. whats his secret.?

[TopTellyFan]

@LollieSmith So what about so what? He's only succeeded in being a first class twat like most politicians, including Blair and Brown.

[LollieSmith]

@TopTellyFan and your a good guy who works in a factory..

[TopTellyFan]

@LollieSmith No, I'm just not a nasty shit-stirrer like Campbell.

[LollieSmith]

@TopTellyFan no, you are a nobody,nothing,zippo,zilch

[TopTellyFan]

@LollieSmith With every new reply you're boring me even more. How you can defend a complete cunt like Campbell is anyone's guess...

[EtherealVortex]

@LollieSmith Is that you Alistair?

[LollieSmith]

Alistair has had to live with mental illness and the threat of a relapse for 20 odd years. On top of this he was the victim of a long stalking campaign from the actress Nicola Pagett

[greenisland75]

This man goes too far.

His name is Andrew Marr

We will have to find him a tsar

because he needs retraining to get that brand new car

[cun7us]

Sorry did I miss something? Where's the part where he actually cries?

[Cartoonsbystan]

4.32. Either cracking under pressure, or more likely, ACTING.

[John27346]

@Cartoonsbystan I've been through panic attacks and I can tell you that you can come out fighting in an instant. He had a panic attack for real.

[LollieSmith]

@John27346  Alistair has has serious psychiatric problems and i know that the Iraq inquiry caused him to consider suicide

[John27346]

@LollieSmith He considered it but he decided not to, which shows strength of character.

[LollieSmith]

@John27346 Killing yourself takes some doing. I dont where anyone gets the idea that ending ones own life is cowardice

[John27346]

@LollieSmith Well, I don't doubt that, but not committing suicide doesn't make you a coward either.

[TheZanipolo]

Liar and bullshitter.

The Labour liar seems unable to admit what he and everyone else knows, i.e. yes it WOULD mean that Blar mislead parliament, which is of course exactly what he did.

[TheZanipolo]

Liar and bullshitter

The Labour liar cannot answer the question - he really knows the answer, i.e. yes it would mean that the other Labour liar and bullshitter Blair mislead parliament, which is of course exactly what he did.

[max1xxx]

the role.......?

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

[max1xxx]

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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.

[buffett1000]

JIC report intel showed no evidence of WMD bejoynd doubt. Blair took the UK to war on the basis of JIC's report on Iraq's WMD. So he did mislead. How can Cambell live with himself defending Blair? Astounding.

[speckleist]

When is the BBC going to realise that Marr has no idea how to interview for TV, and just wants to argue? He's so full of his own opinions in this 'interview' that Capmbell gets off scot free as he never gets a chance to get an answer out.

[cro499]

@speckleist .....you again you GRUMPY old cunt.......Victor fucking Meldrew.

[Bexwoopwoop]

LOL! At least they actually took the question of the Iraq war to parliament and have held an inquiry, UNLIKE MARGARET THATCHER!!! - falklands. A war which I actually agree with, BUT one which she used to gain electoral votes.

[badger5079]

FAKE!

[amandaukok]

That was not close to crying .. it was a full blown panic attack... you can see him hyperventilating quite clearly. The cough as well at the start of it was classic. When a control freak like himself feels "out of control" then these physical symptoms will become very severe in seconds when they know they are no longer manipulating the situation they used to feel able to do so well in the past.

[theLdogg]

Did he answer the question or just get a bit 'emotional' and tell Andrew Marr off for asking it because the media have been bullying him cry me a fucking river

[pondman27]

This is what happens when you give control of the nations wealth to central banks. Did you hear it, transatlantic relations. They would seek to divert the gaze.

The theatre of politics, exquisetly presented to provide the facade of culpubility, sensitivity & compassion.

An upside down world of propganda.

The system is broken or it was designed to generate scism & division. Either way, the numbers of the victims mount.

[chefblanc]

yes youve been through alot and so have I -but your rich big boy-and guilty.

[hogberto]

heh heh. this dick is helping to running the labour election campaign. bye bye gordon.

[bolivianex]

Totally stumped! thought he was gonna tell the real truth for the invasion for a moment. He still cant answer the question properly he knows the real truth and his face gave it away. If it was just war he wouldnt be feeling the pressure.

[kingdanandrew]

Alistair Campbell is a liar and a psychopathy. Who now blames the media for misleading the public! Anyone remember his position during the Bliar Regime, yes you guessed it, he was Bliars Press Officer, who informed the media of the 45 minutes bullshit.. An utter cunt of a man.

[noklarok]

absolutely, years ago everyone knew fine well that A.C. was one of the main cunts that actively added the 45 minute claim. he tried to intimidate the media. Alisdair Campbell and Tont Blair make me want to be religious because then maybe i will see them in hell. I can't believe he acts so innocent. Why will we not know what happened to Dr Kelly for 75 years? probably cos he was bumped off.

[slugferret]

If Campbell was an actor, I think he would be out of work. The sympathy eye well up.

[NFXA113]

"we can go round it again and again" he says. In other words "please stop asking me the question I cannot answer"

[tywilliams100]

SCUM, LYING, SUB HUMAN. ROT IN HEL.L !

[kingsqueenjude]

why do people keep forgetting that he is a human being?? we all make mistakes and have the capacity to forgive others. it so upsetting when people say he's this and he's that. i mean, if u can't say something to someone's face, dont say it at all. because even if u do have the guts to say something mean or derogatory, chances are ur likely to regret them......point is that its so easy to be focused on and be influenced by the negative

[TheMegaMachiavelli]

Campbell is human?! We may 'all make mistakes' but not on this charalatan's scale where we end up going to war on spin and hype and falsehoods that costs hundreds of thousands of lives, where international law can be rode roughshod over, parliamentary procedure sidelined and public opinion ignored. That's quite some mistake. What positives do you think there are to focus on in this story? This guy Campbell is pure poison to politics and democracy and our society has been poorer for his kind.

[wayzotoichi]

@kingsqueenjude he's got a nerve to dispute mortality figures one minute, then turn on the blub like that for himself! A tour de force in interview manipulation, Machiavelli would be fascinated with the future, having politicans like this. If you think he's a normal human being (and not a snake) congratulations, your bleeding heartstrings have been had, There are better and less weaselish causes to defend than Campbell. who has an emotional wimper or indignant flutter for any occasion!

[davidlipka]

Minor panic attack for poor Mr Campbell when he realised he had been rumbled. What a self obsessed, arrogant....and dangerous snake. How do we allow ourselves to put up with being ruled by people like this?

[LondonPride25]

A mediocre performance from a clinical psychopath. He wouldn't know what the truth was if it got up and gave him a haircut.

[mike520784]

Did I actually hear this:

Campbell : "I don't think people are interested in the truth anymore..."

Marr: "600,000 people have died after the war.."

Campbell: "You can't prove those...."

5:07-5:37

What a (for use of a better phrase) cunt.

[pulex48]

Its shocking that this non-elected, lightweight, spin-merchant should have been involved so closely with flawed decisions that, as Marr pointed out have cost 600,000 lives, yes 600,000. And then in this interview he has the callous cheek to compare decisions to go to war with the choices one makes about what tie one chooses in the morning.

[putthetellyon1]

"I will help them take apart a Tory party that I think that, under the slightest bit of pressure, is starting to show signs of crack.."

Much like yourself then Alistair! What a dork.

[arnothill]

I'll take this man and the whole Labour legacy with open arms rather than a return to 'me first' morality of the tories. How quickly we forget the greedy self-serving years of Thatcher. Remember we have a minimum wage, freedom of information act, record investment in education and health. Do you believe that Cameron and his greedy mates will pursue that kind of investment? By investment I mean faith in the future, the people, decency. Remember Thatcher said there was no such thing as 'society'.

[wayzotoichi]

arnothill...these guys Alistair Campbell, Blair... They're the worst scum of the government. They're confirmed verbal cheats till they die. They don't respect human life and human dignity, apart from of money and class issues that tories have had. New Lbour gave us useless unviersity degrees and lowered bars..and have done sleaze and corruption like the worst Tories of the 80s. They're world champion sleazes. Hazel Blears..another one, lies through her teeth.

[arnothill]

Brown is a decent Honest man with the intellect to tackle the great issues that we are confronted with. Not a touchy-feely TV-cosy, namby-pamby school-tie-ba'bag. He is on any occasion, likely to be the most intelligent person in the room. You know this to be true,

What useless university degrees are you referring to? Up until the recession, graduate employment was high and the aspiration to deliver higher education to all who want it is a good one. As for Hazel Blears...no argument.

[noklarok]

brown is a fag. not a homosexual but a coward. a complete power hungry geeky fag. the man has zero metaphysical balls. he stood by tony blair taking our country into war because he wanted to play PM one day even though he knew fine well it was wrong. I do not hate Brown like I hate Blair and Campbell but still,, he is a useless, ball-less bastard. I hope Tony Blair and Alisdair Campbell have trouble sleeping at night.

[JekyllBoote]

Are you paid by Labour Central Office to write this drivel, arnothill, or are you just a freelance deluded maniac?

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote.

No.

Of course, yes. How else could you find my dense clumsy prose-style so irresistible?

I beg your pardon, I'm so confused.

You see, your unforgiving, venomous ranting has quite convinced me that our present PM must only be driven by self interest, not as i previously thought; by a sincere desire to serve. I can't wait for Cameron, goodness, we will all be so much better off when he and his grandees are ensconced.

[JekyllBoote]

All the mainstream political parties are hopelessly out of touch with the general public, especially the indigenous white working class. Brown is worse than useless, but so are Cameron and Clegg.

It's a choice between New Labour, Blue Labour and We've-Got-Even-Less-Of-A-Clue Labour. They are just three versions of the same basic political ethos (a toxic fusion of market fundamentalism and political correctness) with only minimally contrasted presentational styles to differentiate them.

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote Your word 'indigenous' worries me a little. No, quite a lot in fact. I respect your views but worry where you vote might be going in a few weeks. Another kind of fundamentalism might be occupying your thoughts. I hope not.

[JekyllBoote]

The fact that slavish supporters of the mainstream parties such as you are "worried" by the thought that there might actually be an indigenous population in this country who have been utterly betrayed by the two-pronged assault on their culture, national identity and quality of life by uncontrolled mass immigration combined with official "multiculturalism" and draconian penalties for holding and expressing dissenting opinions just shows why they are deserting said mainstream parties in droves.

[JekyllBoote]

Incidentally, I suspect you are making a coded reference to "fundamentalist" Islam. If so, why not just come right out and say so, without the mealy-mouthed insinuations?

And if you think I might be minded to vote BNP as well, why not come out and say that as well?

Why are you being so coy?

[tootertrumper]

No, fundamentalism is not restricted to religion, as you know. Your fundamentalism may be rooted in politics, I hope you will not be drawn into joining with fascists who run the BNP.

If you trace your own roots back 3 or 4 generations, you may be surprised how diverse your heritage is. Famously our typical national DNA is not rooted in the UK. We are a nation of immigrants, and richer for it..

[JekyllBoote]

Marxist lies and drivel.

Goodbye!

[arnothill]

@JackBoote, it's been a pleasure. Groucho would be proud. You have a nasty hood-wearing persona, that would be surreal if it were not so frightening. It's people like you that make any of the apparatchiks of the government look saintly.

[JekyllBoote]

Yeah, some Freedom of Information Act when we won't be allowed to hear about Dr David Kelly's death for 70 (!) years.

The minimum wage is meaningless when so much low-wage work is done by illegal immigrants who easily penetrate our non-existent borders.

Health and education? Have you been in an NHS hospital recently, or had to deal with the illiterates our schools produce?

Get back to Millbank, "arnothill", and await further instructions from your New Labour/Common Purpose masters.

[arnothill]

I stand by my words. If the Tories had been in power when the financial crisis hit, the country would be knee deep in unemployed and wrecked for longer than the relatively short recession we are no under. I make no excuses for the sharks that infest politics in Westminster- all sides!, but simply restate the view that Labour have achieved a great deal. Putting the Iraq war aside (which admittedly is a big ask) , I'm proud to be British, for the first time in my adult life. Have been since '97.

[JekyllBoote]

Labour HAVE achieved a great deal - of harm!

It'll be interesting to know what you think when you finally grow up.

[chefblanc]

our role models- Politicians or Footballers?

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote I am not a Labour party member, but thanks for the advice. I will go and join just after I finish this note. As for literacy, the truth is that the hard core of young people who failed to master the basics can thank their parents; who never read to them or promoted homework. This is a perennial issue that you cannot hope to win unless you impose regulatory homework (but then perhaps complain of a nanny state!).

The NHS; a victim of the drug company cartels that masquerade as noble.

[noklarok]

homework has nothing to do with it.homework is cruel. you make kids go to horrible institutions all day. then torture them more at home. I completely agree that parental support is mega-important. i could read basics before i started being taught it at school.

you overlook that creatives do not fit the "create subservient morons to work in an office environment"ethos

NHS is a utopian dream that will die. How do u think the cartels influence the government? no doubt by lubing them up with cash.

[JekyllBoote]

I thought it was the job of schools to teach children to read, not their parents.

After all, why have we been pumping millions and millions of pounds into education if the responsibility for it lies with parents?

The drug cartels are evil, but the NHS as currently quasi-privatised is part of the problem rather than a victim of it.

[pondman27]

@JekyllBoote

You should take a peek at what is being taught/indoctrinated. Self loathing, guilt & a biased historical perspective. NLP!

Brian was right.

The drugs industry today, peddlers of alopathic population control remedies from infancy, cradle to grave, sometimes directly.

Our children along with the family are to be the future they must be defended, especially when confronted with such abuses of the humane. Teachers today are programmers of mind control.

[arnothill]

JekyllBoote, did your parents ever ask; 'Jekyll, have you any homework?' or, 'Would you like a bed-time story?'. Perhaps you benefited from the kind of responsible [parenting that i advocate. If not, then it explains why you seem so bitter.

[JekyllBoote]

You're just rambling now, arnothill.

What has this really got to do with the subject under discussion?

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote the subject under discussion is anything we want it to be. This is the nature of conversation. It takes two. If you don't wish to join with my rambling, feel free to ignore it, pedant.

[evajom1]

This isn't really the place for private conversation, arnothill. It's a place for comments that have some discernible relevance to the video posted here. That isn't pedantry, just common sense.

[arnothill]

I 'm sure that you never 'pumped' any money into education -you stood on the sidelines complaining about the spending. Yet you say; "I thought it was the job of schools to teach children to read, not their parents" Oh dear, sad. You a parent? Do you check their homework? Not your job? Why do some children not settle in school? Why do they bully, cheat or lie? Negative, hand-washing, un-supportive parents sit back and blame the schools and 'the system' instead of taking some responsibility.

[JekyllBoote]

I've been paying taxes for over 30 years, some of which has, indeed, been "pumped" into what passes for education under successive governments, Labour and Conservative.

I am not saying that parents should not take an interest in their children's education, nor that they should not offer them informal instruction. What I AM saying is that it is the DUTY of professional educators to do the job that we taxpayers PAY them to do.

By the way, your dense, clumsy prose-style shows your confusion.

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote thank you for your critique. I had no idea i was engaging with such an erudite gentleman, nor that my style was the subject of debate. That said, I will accept your criticism with good grace. Can you tell me where you learned to write with such eloquence?

On the subject of schools, in my view, 'what passes for education' is a result of a misguided national curriculum.  I wonder what it would be like to be free of such an imposition. In any event teachers must always do their duty.

[JekyllBoote]

You're being sarcastic, of course, arnothill, but it is not for me to say whether I write with such "eloquence" (although this term applies more to the spoken word than to the written, doesn't it?).

I try to write with clarity, cogency and relevance. Again, whether I succeed or not isn't for me to judge. Writers such as Samuel Johnson and Orwell certainly did. It seems to me that it is not so much where you learn to do so as whether you do.

I agree with you about the National Curriculum.

[arnothill]

Well @JekyllBoote, once again you cannot resist finding fault. I am beginning to detect a pattern here. in fact eloquent prose is not a mutually exclusive term. I think that you may well find reference to such by Boswell or indeed Johnson. When this intrepid pair toured north of the border they noted a distinct culture, which to this day successfully eschews a national curriculum. Have your explored how schools fare up there?

[JekyllBoote]

I like the way that you characteristically throw back your own inadequacies at me as if it were somehow MY fault that I find fault with YOU. The only "pattern" is your recurrent stupidity.

Yes, the Scots Raj (who dominate New Labour) have ensured that the debauchment of education south of the border does not affect Scottish schools.

I wonder why?

[tootertrumper]

The National Curriculum was introduced in 1988, almost a decade before Labour.

You are very bitter; clearly the BNP are not specific enough for you. Your type of nationalism even allows you to turn on your own. You shame us.

You wonder why the system is different in Scotland? Devolution. Look it up. We rejected it, mores the pity.

[arnothill]

evajom. I could care less, since your comment clearly shows how public the conversation is. That said, you may consider that your long experience as a youtube contributor allows you the right to police the posts and issue rebukes to those who fail to display proper etiquette. Best of luck.

[JekyllBoote]

Surely you mean that you COULDN'T care less, unless you are an American?

Incidentally, how much experience as a YouTube contributor must a person have before you magnanimously grant them "the right" (indeed!) to express an opinion without your simultaneously having a hissy fit and patronising them in print?

I think you are the person failing to "display proper etiquette".

In fact, you're a complete idiot, and even trying to debate rationally with you is a waste of time. Goodbye.

[arnothill]

@JekyllBoote I am in fact, technically American. How perceptive of you. It seems that our chat is indeed over. Good luck to you, but I fear that your rage will only bring continued frustration and high blood pressure. I await your new Britain with trepidation, thankful that I hold two passports.

Thanks for the input tootertrumper.

[noklarok]

right on.

poor poor David Kelly.

strange how there is not much mention of him in the media. perhaps not strange at all.

stranger still though is how few people in this country even fucking care.

[chefblanc]

of course and I find that the biggest cover up- everything else is a smokescreen including the enquiry

[JekyllBoote]

Drag this hired liar kicking and screaming to an International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, along with that grinning, spinning sawdust Caesar, Blair.

The fact that this crook is advising "Gordon" tells you everything you need to know about the moral integrity of New Labour (not that I imagine for one moment that Cameron's Blue Labour or Clegg's Haven't-Got-A-Clue Labour are palatable alternatives).

I had to love the faux-blokey touch about missing "Gordon" because of a football match.

[JekyllBoote]

You're breaking my heart, Alistair!

You can put away the sliced onions now.

[JekyllBoote]

Just look at the Common Purpose, NLP hand-waving and gesticulating.

The acted-out emotion from 4' 12" onwards is known is showbusiness as a "cod dry". It's usually employed to get an audience to laugh, or laugh even more than they already are; here it's used to get Campbell off the hook of a direct question while winning the sympathy of the more gullible members of the TV audience (which, alas, is probably most of them).

A scoundrel and a villain of the first kidney.

[abigfartstain]

Brown weeped after talking about a dead family member, I can understand that. He almost weeped to avoid answearing a leigament question. I want this man in the dock.

[abigfartstain]

none of his friends brothers sisters sons or daughters suffered because of there decison to go to Iraq, Who he be singing a diffrent tune if they had?

[abigfartstain]

look at the look on his face at 3:20 how much does he not want to be there.

[abigfartstain]

that man should be in prison. Him and Blair, they lied and good people died. He should be at least tried for man slaughter.

[75amoeba]

What a moron. Now Labour are all blubbing. Wankers.

[wotuchatbout]

This is a hilarious performance from a man renowned for his handling of the media. He looks like a 5 year old being asked who broke mummy's favourite ornament, only less convincing.

As jagara1 says, his inability to maintain eye contact is a dead givaway, as is his defensively clasped hands and total lack of animation when answering difficult questions. Most telling of all is looking up to the left for a couple of seconds before the 'breakdown', the mark of somebody trying to compose a lie.

[wotuchatbout]

I bet there are former ministers from Blair's time pissing themselves watching this, remembering grillings that this man gave them over poor interviews. In years to come, this clip will be required viewing for anybody studying body language or media interview technique.

[realmadridvideos]

I dont want to start a flame war, but if Iraq is part of OPAC then how does the US get oil on the cheap ?

[jagara1]

Good question - Saddam was about to start trading oil in Euros and there was a fear that if the rest of OPEC followed suit the US economy could have failed (as oil is traded in dollars).

There are plenty of videos on youtube relating to Iraq and oil - have a look and you may be quite shocked by what you learn.

[wayzotoichi]

I agree with: 'when you've tried smears, threats and spin, why not resort to 'tears'? '..exaclty, the David Kelly fiasco and the disciplining of the BBC..very 'big brother'..and that was more of less spin and smear. This guy's quite dangerous him & Blair were two peas in a pod 'Gordon' has no chance with a snake like that on board, Campbell's 'help' might quite easily bring down Gordon from inside,as we've all had enough of Campbell.We haven't had a really crap book since Anthea Turner..bogroll?

[funkydreddUK]

Campbell thought....I don't want to answer this....I'll pretend to get all emotional and evade it - which he did. Stupid fucker thought he could come on and plug his shit book.

Blair totally lied - nothing to do with different conclusions. Blair may as well have told us the sun is cold and then claimed he has a different perspective on temperatures.

Anyone remember the Campbell interview on Channel 4 news? Campbell was spitting blood at Jon Snow.

[realmadridvideos]

haha Great Comment ! :)

[chazz668]

if bush had said to blair suck my cock. that cunt would have, because blair was so far up bushs arse, he could not see pass his testicles. the lying fucking scumbag.what bush wanted from blair he got, and in doing so dr. david kelly was murdered, blair you have bloood your hands YOU TWAT

[SuperShoe09786]

If this mans tears are genuine then they are only for himself and his mate Tony. He and Tony don't give a damn about the dead, the mentally and physically handicapped, the 4 million displaced, the destruction and damage made on a historical biblical land. No they only care about saving their own skin, and if breaking down on national TV is his way of getting sympathy then it really is quite pathetic and nobody is fooled.

[80TABS]

Tony Blair is a true leader.If he had said at the inquiry that he regretted what he did, i would have felt that my lost friends died in vain..But he stood by his decision for removing the dictator which made me felt strong in my heartThat is a perfect answer to the soldiers like me who fought in the invasion.Some civilians in Britain will never understand, but that is the nature of some things.Some will understand some will not.

[TopTellyFan]

@80TABS I'm sorry to say that your friends have died in vain. There was no WMD in Iraq, just oil. Blair knew all that. That's why he won't go and remove Mugabe - no oil. As for Afghanistan, we're just pissing in the wind there. Take over one area, move on to the next, and the Taliban will fill up the first ones again.

[PhilMann93]

I couldn't agree more. He apologised for the divisiveness, but stuck by his decision, which, even if it is judged to be wrong, is incredibly honourable, and does not show any hint of passing the blame. He is an ideal leader in such circumstance.

[funkydreddUK]

@PhillMann93 Apologised for his divisiveness? All that means is that he's sorry people disagreed with him. And to claim that he was 'honourable' because he stood by his decision is more shite - it means absolutely nothing but that he wasn't going to listen to anyone else. You're either gullible or as bad as Blair, using empty slogans as a defence.

[PhilMann93]

I was agreeing with 80TABS. I think that had Blair gone back on what he said, he would've been accused of further deception and cheapening what had been done by the armed forces since 2003 - whose support he (or the current government) can't afford to lose. Given that he was so backed into a corner, I think he did remarkably well to come out of it relatively unscathed - I would say this was more down to the fact that actually, a significant majority of people agreed with what he had to say.

[JekyllBoote]

Blair should never have said what he said in the first place, and no person with even a sliver of decency ever would have.

The fact that, so far, he hasn't had to answer in any serious way for his lies (but has just kept on mouthing the same mantra about believing them when he said them) merely proves his talent for constantly wriggling off the hook.

Blair (like his minion Campbell) has had the luck of the Devil, but it's rapidly running out and the day of reckoning is at hand.

[JekyllBoote]

Yeah, you've got to hand it to Hitler, Eichmann, Mengele, etc.

Once they'd decided on the Final Solution they were honourable enough to want to see the job through to the end.

[JekyllBoote]

I'm truly sorry to say this, 80TABS, but Blair refusing to own up to his lying before Parliament and the British public will not make a single one of your "lost friends" (for whom I too grieve) any bit less dead.

I salute your courage in battle, and I thank you from my heart for being prepared to go to war, but I am afraid that your comrades did indeed die not merely "in vain", but, even worse, for the vanity of a man so in love with power that he was prepared to abandon all common decency.

[jagara1]

10:00 Yes Alistair we can see when you are being authentic... cough cough!

Just look at how many times this man looks away when he is answering questions - this is something people tend to do when they are trying to deceive - it is very difficult to look someone in the eye and lie!

[JekyllBoote]

Quite right.

There's also a lot of Common Purpose-type NLP manipulative use of language and distracting hand waving and gesticulation, not to mention the "cod dry" of faux-emotion in the middle of the interview.

[exposedeceivers]

If there was any justice in the world, the likes of Campbell, Blair and Bush would stand trial and, upon conviction, receive the same fate as Saddam Hussein.

[SuperRuby2shoes]

First Campbell coughs in A.M.'s face. Badly done, Mr C. Then he comes cose to hyperventillating. Under pressure, Mr C?

He knows why people are upset? Does he have more than one braincell to rub together? If so, surely he'd RECOGNISE (there's a word for you, Mr C) that the public are upset: at the war, the lies, the cover ups and the constant stream of bullshit.

Another word for you, Mr C. INTEGRITY. You should look it up.

[247pumpkin]

Ahhhhh. The poor lamb. He and Tony have been through sooooooo much. Contemptible twat.

[spankthereasoner]

The majority of what he said was opinion. I would rather people stick to the facts.

[desikinlalaland]

As upset as he claims to be Alistair Campbell has no problem instantly objecting ' you can't prove those' for the Iraqi war dead figures Andrew Marr quotes at 5.29 .

The man is a psychopath .

[JekyllBoote]

Yes, that is exactly what he is - a psychopath.

Marr let him off the hook far too easily. He (Marr) was obviously under orders from on high (in the Common Purpose-run BBC and Millbank) to allow this charlatan and snake-oil salesman to play for time with a faked emotional episode.

[wayzotoichi]

@JekyllBoote Campbell IS a self-centred psychopath. It's repugnant how someone who defends the war (including sexed up dossiers?), thinks it ok to hold up the programme with a strategic extended silence..so then the issue becomes: either leaving him alone or endanger his health with such questions (of national and international justice) Marr was right to maintain the falsity of the '45 minutes' that obliged MPs to agree. What cheap melodrama, lucky he's not serving in the theatre of battle : -/

[JekyllBoote]

Marr maintained the falsity of the "45 minutes" claim because it has been established beyond any reasonable doubt.

What he failed to do was to insist upon it often enough and emphatically enough. Also, as "spankthereasoner" has suggested, Campbell was allowed to express subjective opinions far too much, and was not restricted to the facts. It's actually remarkable just how free a rein Marr gave him. In normal circumstances no broadcaster (not under orders) would allow so much dead time.

[mike520784]

Sorry about the use of words but... what a wanker!

[TopTellyFan]

@mike520784 It's okay. For someone who should really have the deaths of hundreds of thousands on his conscience, you can call him anything you like :)

[chrisc990]

He's been through a lot!!!!!!??? ha ha ha! what a joke needless to say the people directly affected by their decision (soldiers, and Iraqis) are the ones who have BEEN THROUGH A LOT!

The inquiries have been going too long!!!!???....the nerve!...people are dead!...people are maimed, paralysed, brain damaged...you have to be certain about such a decision!

Keep asking questions! they are on stumbling now and the net is slowly closing and this is what took Campbells breath away...

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[cashelblue90]

Campell,the biggest bull shitter in England apart from that tosser Blair

[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.

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