latest news lolysnews NYT shailendra chinchalkar trending news. Hundreds of British troops were killed in the same conflict. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures JanuGet link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps By BY STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World via IFTTT. Two decades on: One million dead Iraqis, three million dispossessed and a region reeling from terrorism and instability. A petition calling for former British prime minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his knighthood has reached more than one million signatures as anger continues to grow over the. LONDON By tradition, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Street, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Year’s Day could have been a routine event. The US claimed the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and actively pressed for invading Iraq in late 2001. To Tony Blair, the biggest protest march in British history was fatuous: In mid-February 2003, just before the Iraq invasion, 10s of millions of demonstrators in hundreds of cities across the world, including London, marched against the impending US-led war in the Middle East. The petition, set up three days ago, which aims to strip the former Labour leader of his appointment, reached 500,000 signatures on Monday. The ex-Labour leader was appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter - the highest possible honour - in the New Year's Honours List. Blair is appointed by the Queen a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry. It’s a designation routinely awarded to former Prime Ministers, but antiwar campaigners say they’re repulsed at seeing Blair receiving it. A petition calling for former prime minister Sir Tony Blair's knighthood to be rescinded has been signed by more than a quarter of a million people. More than 500,000 people have signed a petition on American petition website "" calling on the Queen to strip the man they call a war criminal of his new title. Furious Iraq veterans are now calling for the honors system to be overhauled. The backlash to the announcement has been immense and is only growing. The petition organiser Angus Scott wrote: 'Tony Blair is to be knighted with the highest possible ranking in the new year honours list, Buckingham Palace has said. The petitioners say the former premier should be tried and jailed for his role in the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.Britain’s highest rank for chivalry awarded by Queen Elizabeth to Tony Blair, a man described by campaigners as one of the most repugnant political figures in the world - in power from 1997 to 2007. A petition started on New Year's Day to remove Tony Blair's knighthood has reached over 150,000 signatures. Islam Times - Some 700,000 people have signed a petition launched to strip former British Prime Minister Tony Blair of knighthood, an appointment personally made by the country’s Monarch just last week. Sir Keir Starmer, his crown as Labour leader looking increasingly unsettled, defended the knighthood as rightfully earned, Blair having made Britain a better.
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