Honest Abe not keen on Blair pick

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a war criminal. He may have given President Bush the final push to launch his murderous war against Iraq fifteen years ago. Without Blair's unconditional support, the Iraq war would have been a tough sell; possibly even cancelled. The results were millions dead, wounded or displaced, Iraq's landscape ravaged by depleted uranium still deforming babies, and trillions squandered in the process. War criminals should have a date in the dock of international justice, not receiving the prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize being awarded to Blair April 24 right here in Chicago by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (ALPLF). Ray McCaskey , Chair of the ALPLF Board of Directors, claims Blair was picked because "He embodies the kind of leadership President Lincoln would have recognized and appreciated." I suspect if Honest Abe could rise from Oak Ridge Cemetery to confront Chairman McCaskey, he'd remind him that in 1848, he was denied re-election to Congress because he opposed the criminal war of his day, the US land grab of Texas and much of Mexico in the Mexican War of 1848. Lincoln would close with this: "You can fool some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool me that Tony Blair isn't a war criminal."