{"article":{"id":233095,"heading":"Groucho Marx said - those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have ot","author":"Resolved White","created":"2009-12-13 17:07:20","modified":"2013-11-11 01:03:47","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:03:47","article":"<p>Blair said \"If I had known then that there were no WMDs I would still have thought it right to invade Iraq and even if was against the law to do so\". <br><br> Her added: \"I mean obviously I would have had to use and deploy a different set of lies about the nature of a threat which did not exist.\"  <br><br> He continued: \"I can't really think we'd be better with him and his two sons in charge, but it's incredibly difficult because I know &lsquo;regime change&rsquo; was not allowed, legally, as a reason for invading a country \". <br><br> He explained it was \"the vague impression of Saddam as a threat to the region\" because Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons, which we had given him, against his own people and not our enemies. <br><br> \"This was obviously the thing that was uppermost in my mind &ndash; to lie my way through to what I wanted\",  <br>  <br> Blair said.  <br><br> Profile of a sociopath: <br><br> Pathological Lying. <br><br> Glibness and Superficial Charm. <br><br> Manipulative and Cunning. <br><br> Grandiose Sense of Self. <br><br> Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Phoney Blair said \u2013 these are my lies, and if you don\u2019t like them\u2026well, I have others. ","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/a_joke.jpg","filesize":"34.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/12\/233095.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/a_joke.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/a_joke.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}