Blair’s sham approach undignified

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair’s perceived role as the restraining hand on a belligerent American shoulder readying for war with Iraq has been revealed for exactly what it was all along: public perception.

The mask slipped during a BBC Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman, when Mr Blair refused to rule out war without a new UN mandate if there was an “unreasonable veto” at the Security Council.

He said that if there were a second UN resolution, then people would be behind him, but if there were not, then there was a lot of persuading to do.