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Don't consider the 1 star reviews on here; you'll notice they avoid reviewing the documentary. This is a shocking story that everyone needs to hear. Blair should be behind bars, how he's managed to avoid prison doesn't speak too well to the British judicial system. Anywhere else in the world (US excepted) he most certainly would. The parts showing his involvement in the middle east as a peace envoy / come mediator are truly shocking. It would seem that it is solely about money at all costs. George Galloway deserves a lot of credit for standing up and telling it how it is and those who contribute from the press and Cherie Blair's own sister also deserve a medal.

Simply put, brilliant. A much needed and well developed resource that gets the facts right while telling these facts in a compelling and inspiring way. I highly recommend it. This film should be a 'must see' in every High School in America and Britain at the very least. Bravo. George Galloway has done a tremendous job of putting the facts out there and making these facts clear. This must not have been an easy piece to create as there is much hostility directed towards people with the POV of wanting to know the truth about a thing rather than those who prefer to remain asleep to these realities. A film of this sort on the Bush family should be made with the detail to attention as this is on Blair. After all it is Bush and the NeoCon movement that are the senior partners in much if not all of this. Great job George.

Having Galloway, a well known Blair hater, is potentially off putting for many people but actually he does a pretty good job. It is a fairly low budget documentary but I actually quite enjoyed the cartoons and the news reels. There is an impressive array of well known, articulate and I would say mainly non-biased politicians, journalists and commentators, lining up to provide very unflattering views and examples of Blair's odious activities in and following his prime minister-ship. Suffice to say I don't think his wife and one of her sisters will ever speak again. Some things were skirted over, such as his role in David Kelly's death and the 'sexing up' of the 'dodgy dossier'', for which Blair and Campbell as a minimum should have been imprisoned for, but I guess that could have been a documentary all on its own. Ultimately, whatever your view is on Blair and the Iraq war, most sane British people that see this must think how can it be right for a recently serving prime minister to so quickly move into a role which is netting him tens of millions of pounds a year working for renowned despots and dictators. Watch the film and make your own mind up. I was not a fan, and after watching this, I have lost even more faith in society, politicians and the rule of law in this country. Watch this and feel embarrassed to be British.

I'm not a great fan of George Gallaway, nor is this a masterpiece of cinema - But it's a must see - the amazing story of the rise and not yet fall of Blair. His massive role in the destruction of Iraq and of the Labour Party. It helps us to understand why the middle east is in such turmoil today and also why the Tories are in power now.

It outlines the depths of sleaze to which Brtish politics can sink - you may think you already knew it all but you may be shocked by such levels of hypocrisy. It shows what can happen when a power-mad piece of slime is out of control. When the press, corporations and politicians collude. (I think, maybe it's called fascism??) It's sad to witness so many lies and such terrible consequences.

Galloway hopes to galvanize us into action. The only feel-good moment after watching this film is knowing that millions support the fight to have Blair tried as a war criminal while thousands of people are rejoining the Labour Party every day. We now have the hope that militants can contribute to decision making rather than a tiny corrupt elite motivated primarily by personal gain- could this prevent another Iraq?

Combining testimony from prominent observers, ambassadors and statesmen, with extensive archive footage, animation and illustrations from the award-winning political cartoonist Steve Bell, George Galloway sets out his argument that, despite the good things that his government achieved, Tony Blair s actions since leaving office reveal that his overriding motivation may have always been a messianic pursuit of personal glory and financial reward.

Starting with where Blair was in 2016, in which his business model draws obvious comparisons with the Clinton foundation with his Tony Blair associates company, The Killings of Tony Blair establishes itself as not an unofficial biography of Tony Blair, but more interestingly an account of the numerous scandals he has been involved with in his professional and personal life even, as well as dipping occasionally into psychological profiling, which your mileage may vary on whether that is significant or not.

Was it the troubles in Ireland? John Major having the magnetism of a wooden plank? Or was it the triangulation effect, perfected by the Clintons, which meant cross-partisan appeal through centrist policies? I'm gonna leave that to you. But New Labour's unparalleled election majority, considering the numerous gerrymandering practises the previous conservative government had conducted in the decade or so before, I would hope, speaks for itself. Well, that and promising to dismantle anti-trust policies for Rupert Murdock, but aalidldiso.

It's a hard film to hate on as the message is so unilaterally appealing. Even before he became Prime Minister, Tony Blair was making deals with bank and media tycoons to secure his victory and it really only got worse. From their pioneering of a revolving door system of corruption which was like Thatcherism on steroids, Tony Blair's contemporary role as an influence agent for dictators, offering spin advice comes from years of experience of near sociopathic degrees of manipulation. He dragged his party's name through the mud and was a co-conspirator in possibly millions of deaths in wars he instigated in and propagated for throughout the world.

The documentary does lay out the positive effects of New Labour had on Britain such as, of course, the obvious, The Good Friday agreement which was a milestone in ending the sectarian violence in Ireland, for now. They also introduced a national minimum wage, which has morphed into something Britons know now as Universal Credit. Also, additional spending on benefits and tax credits meant that Child poverty was significantly decreased, even though these were surface level reforms and didn't get to the root of the problem such as the proud British tradition of social inequality as well as the elephant in the room, corruption within the financial sector, which would eventually come to bite them in the arse. This legacy of weak, technocratic policies made for plentiful ammunition for David Cameron's election campaign. I would go into the private finance initiative, but, I just ate.

The only thing I can really say bad about The Killings of Tony Blair is that as a piece of film-making, it looks very cheap, which sounds contradictory I know, but it was distracting. Whether it was terrible, watered down covers of pop songs they couldn't get the licensing for, or the basic looking animations or the poor quality stock footage that could have done with a bit of remastering. If you felt you needed all this flash to make the very obvious point, shared on many sides of the political spectrum, that Tony Blair is thoroughly corrupt, then, I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you thought people wouldn't take you seriously? Were your kickstarters gonna get riled if you didn't feature this chintzy bollocks? I'm sorry, but the try hard aesthetic of this documentary to be something like an Errol Morris piece or Man on Wire severely undermines it's message and is even a Blair like move in of itself. However, the interviews, the meat of the documentary, are still exceptionally strong and paint a very damning portrait of the legacy of Blair and New Labour I must emphasise.

In conclusion, The Killings of Tony Blair is a nauseating and depressing examination of the most infamous scandals of Tony Blair's career, one which caused insurmountable damage to the credibility of the labour party and more importantly played a key role in several events from several different time periods that has left the Middle East in a state of fear and political fragmentation that is much further away from obtaining a resolution then it was before 2003. If you would like to know more about how British politics has gotten to the state that it is today, then I highly recommend The Killings of Tony Blair as it lays out a shameful legacy of corruption that many of us are still reeling from today due to it directly cultivating the alienation and apathy millions in this country feel towards Britain's political scene.

This is a terrible documentary. The West's relationship with Iraq has evolved over decades and decades, and Iraq's status within the international community has been tainted by chemical warfare against it's own population (specifically against the Kurds in Halabja, 1988). Indeed, not only is the legacy of Saddam's regime COMPLETELY ignored, the documentary attempts to defend a number of falsehoods, 3 in particular:

(1) The invasion of Iraq, 2003, was opportunistic with no moral or legal basis. It was an illegal war.

If you watch Galloway's documentary, you will be none the wiser about UN resolutions 661 and 687. These were resolutions passed in the early 1990s designed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and extended-range ballistic missiles from Iraq (previously used by the Saddam regime), and the resolutions also explicitly prohibit any support for terrorism, as well as forcing Iraq to pay war reparations and all foreign debt. Please read these UN resolutions as they are the legal and political basis upon which the international community viewed Iraq under Saddam.

(2) Bush and Blair engineered the war and, in doing so, Blair was Bush's poodle.

This myth is still being perpetuated and the documentary skirts over two very important facts: (a) Blair was pro regime change BEFORE Bush was even elected - see his speech in Chicago, 1999; (b) The US itself had already officially adopted regime change in Iraq as official policy (see Iraq Liberation Act 1998) and was signed into law by Bill Clinton. Neither (a) and (b) are even hinted at in the documentary.

(3) The allies used chemical weapons and intentionally targeted civilians.

These are grotesque lies perpetuated by the documentary. It is a claim that Galloway has ripped from a film entitled: "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre". The claims being made in Galloway's movie is that (a) the white phosphorus weapons used by allied forces in 2004 represents a breach of the UN's Chemical Weapons Convention, and that (b) they were used with the intention to harm civilian populations. The use of white phosphorus is, legally speaking, an incendiary device and not prohibited under international law. Furthermore, there is no evidence whatsoever that in Fallujah they were intentionally used to target civilians. No evidence whatsoever.

So, what can be gained from Galloway's documentary? The positive point I would make is that the documentary raises severe questions about the public ethics of former Prime Ministers. Tony Blair's activities after he stepped down are troublesome to say the least. His relationship with JP Morgan and the utilisation of contacts made when he was Prime Minister for personal financial gain are deeply unethical and bring the office of Prime Minister into disrepute. Galloway and others in the documentary are spot on in their criticisms of Blair for this.

Overall, this is another documentary which does a disservice to illuminating political phenomena. It is ridiculously reductionist, absurdly so in fact, and watching it one would think that all was well up until 9/11 and then suddenly Bush and Blair decided to have a go at Saddam and basically try and take control of the middle-east. It is an overly simplified narrative which completely ignores long standing legal and political issues the international community has had with Saddam's Iraq. As such, it does not seek to illuminate or explain how we got to an invasion in 2003, far from it. Note the number of times Galloway refers to his own personal efforts, his own struggle, his own woes, his own leadership role in the anti-war campaign. The irony is that while the documentary adequately portrays Blair as someone self-serving when it comes to personal finances, it also demonstrate how self-serving Galloway is in trying to engineer himself as a cult figure.

Sorry George, but having watched this, I cannot "salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability."