"If you believe in God, your judgment (to go to war against Iraq) is "made also by God," Incredible, but . . .

Tony Blair is quoted (BBC news) as saying his judgment to go to way was also made by God. Yes! See below. Incredible. But this is typical reasoning of the religious enthusiast when faced with the human failure of his decisions. Which raises an interesting question: When will Mr Bush fall back on similarly justifying his decision? See BBC news below, dated March 4.
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PM attacked on Iraq 'God' remarks

Anti-war campaigners have criticised Tony Blair after he suggested his decision to go to war in Iraq would ultimately be judged by God.

The prime minister told ITV1's Parkinson chat show: "If you believe in God (the judgement) is made by God."

Reg Keys, whose son was killed in Iraq, said Mr Blair was "using God as a get-out for total strategic failure" and his comments were "abhorrent".

But Labour MP Stephen Pound praised Mr Blair for being "painfully honest".

'Right thing'

Mr Blair told Michael Parkinson, in an interview being screened on Saturday, how he had struggled with his conscience when making decisions about a potential war in Iraq.

If this was anything to do with trying to appeal to the electorate, he wouldn't be so excruciatingly honest
Stephen Pound
Labour MP

"When you're faced with a decision like that, some of those decisions have been very, very difficult, most of all because you know... these are people's lives and, in some case, their deaths," he said.

"The only way you can take a decision like that is to try to do the right thing according to your conscience."

He said: "I think if you have faith about these things, then you realise that that judgement is made by other people... and if you believe in God, it's made by God as well."

When asked if he had prayed to God on the matter, he replied: "I don't want to get into that...but yeah, of course, you struggle with your own conscience about it... in the end, you do what you think is the right thing." +++