"It's horrible when you read these negative stories about Tony Blair in the press. I would hate anything to ruin his legacy as a crazed, lying, money-grabbing warmonger."
That's Tony Parsons writing in today's Sun, the paper that backed Blair's war on Iraq to the hilt.
Here's The Sun's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, talking in the run-up to the war in February 2003 while praising Blair as "extraordinarily courageous" and "full of guts".
"The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil."
Was that not crazed, money-grabbing and war-mongering, Mr Parsons? Some legacy, eh?
PS: I'm sure the silly tales about Murdoch's feud with Blair over his alleged visits to his ex-wife, Wendi Deng, played no part in the columnist's - and the paper's - decision to attack the former prime minister.
