From The Guardian.Sarah Chapman did not walk out but stayed put, continuing to weep, all the while touching the pendant hanging around her neck: the militarydog-tag of her late brother. Blair was talking about what he called "the pain/gain ratio", the calculus a leader must consider when deciding if military action is worth it. Something in the phrase made her recoil.
And finally, after Chilcot had thanked him for his evidence, the former prime minister got up to leave. As he did, the room burst. "Your lies killed my son," shouted Rose Gentle in a loud, ringing voice, remembering Fusilier Gordon Gentle who was killed in 2004. "I hope you can live with that."
Blair did not look back, nor did he even glance sideways as he brushed past Reg Keys – the father of Lance Corporal Tom Keys – who stood as an anti-war candidate in Blair's Sedgefield constituency in the 2005 general election. "You're a disgrace to your office and to your country," Keys said, all but spitting the words.
Perhaps in anger at Blair's refusal to break his stride, one woman thundered that "He'll never look us in the eye." And then he was gone.
No. He never will look the world in the eye.
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