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  • Blair acted like a 'white vigilante' by invading Iraq, says bishop

    12/29/2003 8:55:24 PM PST · by Hal1950 · 86 replies · 338+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 30 December 2003 | Sarah Hall
    Tony Blair came under attack from two of the Church of England's most senior figures yesterday for acting "like a white vigilante" and for lacking humility in forging ahead with the war on Iraq. In the most outspoken outburst, the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, accused religious conservatives surrounding the US president, George Bush, of espousing "a very strange distortion of Christianity" - particularly since, through Iraq's reconstruction, many would gain financially. "For Bush and Blair to go into Iraq together was like a bunch of white vigilantes going into Brixton to stop drug dealing. This is not to deny...