The British media met Blair's expensive gesture with its own customary lack of charity. "'Guilty' Blair gives £5m book cash to troops" was how one tabloid greeted the news. Relatives of the war dead were asked to condemn this "blood money," and many duly obliged. One liberal-to-her-bootstraps columnist declared the donation "both cynical and provocative -- as if money wipes this dark episode clean and redeems him. Call it chequebook expiation, kill and pay: it clearly works." Another, writing in the left-wing Daily Mirror, suggested that Blair "should amputate a limb and give that to the British Legion," adding that "boys will be in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives because of this pious, Bible-bashing hypocrite."

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