Blair: memoirs of a certified delusional  

It is true of politicians (as of others too) that their enemies never do as much damage to them as they do to themselves.     Blair is a living proof of this observation.     His diaries abound with his self-righteousness, his constant spin to gloss over his real motives, his inability (or dogged refusal) to admit to his own considerable failings, his lust for wealth and global self-promotion, his contempt for his party and for all others apart from those with power he couldn’t cross, his obsessive obsequiousness to Bush and all things US. But what comes across most strongly is his instinct to mislead others and his own self-delusion.     We were told Iraq was about WMD, then it was Saddam’s atrocities, then Middle Eatern democracy, then that Iraq was in the end a better place, when actually it was about aligning himself with Bush as a global power figure....