In a UK TV chat show interview, to be screened tonight, Blair claims that his decision in sending the country to war was divinely inspired, God told me to do it. This is crazy talk on so many levels. He's in danger of suggesting that Britain's involvement in the Iraq war is some kind of religious crusade with such a statement. The UK being a secular society, he is likely to have driven a huge wedge between himself and the general public. In the UK there has been a clear divide between the state and the church for many years, as history affirms. Tony Blair comes across as a fool; perhaps his advisors are working towards his demise. God says it's OK to kill thousands of people, the majority of them civilians? I don't think so.

This is an insult to the British public, Iraqis, Christians, and others.

Meanwhile, the new Liberal-Democrat leader, Campbell, says he prefers open minds to open-neck shirts. [.........what?] And the Tory leader, whose name I forget, (basically he's the Conservative's Little Tony), apparently has nothing to say.

BBC News items:
Blair 'prayed to God' over Iraq
PM attacked over Iraq war prayers

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