Why no one is weeping for Tony Blair.

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Even as he leaves office, Tony Blair is shamelessly self–aggrandizing, said Lynda Gilby in the London Sunday Life. Having announced last week his intention to step aside next month, Blair is now marketing his “farewell tour” of Britain with such fanfare, “you would think the man is a heady mix of Gandhi, Churchill, and Mother Teresa.” As we all know too well after 10 years of his leadership, he shares only their confidence, tempered with none of their humility. Blair’s final speech to the Labor Party displayed barely a pang at having “dragged us into an illegal war” in Iraq, “making war criminals out of every last one of us.” If he really thinks Britain will miss him, “his capacity for self–delusion borders on the pathologic.”

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