Genuine question as an American in the UK: When #TonyBlair trends on twitter, of course the Iraq War comes up. But why do George Bush and the other world leaders who likewise sent their servicemen and women to war not come up in connection? It wasn't just Blair's mad idea alone.

2... Full disclosure: my father, a retired Army colonel, went to the Gulf first in the early '90s to "liberate Kuwait" and then again in 2004-05 to, um, "liberate Iraq" (Operation Iraqi Liberation = OIL... hah). Despite being an Army brat I am (and always have been) very much...

3... against the American-led wars/invasions/occupations of foreign countries that we've seen over the last *looks at watch* 50 years or so. I'm a pacifist, I'm against American imperialism, I'm against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

4... I'm just wondering why it's always "We hate #TonyBlair the war criminal" and never "we hate the Anglo-American military industrial complex" or "we hate the so-called War on Terror whose supposed fundamental goal of defeating al-Qaeda harkens back to the Soviet–Afghan War..."

5... I guess what I'm saying is: I'm against the war in Iraq, and was literally that obnoxious teenager shouting at her Da before he went on deployment ( etc). But it's not as simple as just blaming one politician or even one government: the problem is systemic.

6... This thread doesn't really have a point, other than to say that trying to cram nuance and sophisticated arguments/opinions into 280 characters or fewer on Twitter is really difficult. I just hate "slogan-y" things when it comes to politics, but that's our world now, alas.