Blair 'Astonished' by Coverage of Memos (DSM)

[WePurrsevere]

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AP

LONDON - For Prime Minister Tony Blair, the road to Iraq started with 9/11. The British leader said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press that the attacks on U.S. soil fundamentally changed "the balance of risk" in the world, sharing President Bush's view that the tragedy had made a robust show of force an urgent priority.

The attacks, he said, made it necessary to "draw a line in the sand here, and the country to do it with was Iraq because they were in breach of U.N. resolutions going back over many years."

Sitting on a stone terrace overlooking the garden of his Downing Street residence, Blair reflected on how Sept. 11 convinced him of the need for a new approach to the threat of international terror.

"9/11 changed the whole picture for me, it changed the politics of how we dealt with the threat," he said.

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[bullimiami]

1. did 9/11 convince you to be a duplicitous liar mr blair?

and to commit war crimes, throw out international law and do whatever bush told you to do?

[Nihil]

8. Possibly

It must have brought home the power and extent of those "behind the
curtain". It would have underlined just how cold, calculating and
murderous those people are. The only words that would need to follow
would be "This could be you".

Personally, I don't believe it - I think he has always been a corrupt,
hypocritical little toady - but there is an outside chance that it
really did affect him in this way.

[acmavm]

2. What astonishes me is that blair is still running the show in Britain.

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[katty]

19. Waaaa?Astonished?! at this?but you could care less about

lives being wiped out every hour in Iraq.

[LifeDuringWartime]

20. how do you draw that conclusion from their post?

n/t

[wolfgirl]

3. Astonished? What an idiot! eom

[ET Awful]

4. Hey Tony - Israel is in breach of more UN resolutions going back even

farther. Sorry, that's not a justification.

BTW, I believe the UN resolution stated that Saddam had to destroy all his weapons of mass destruction. . .

Yup, Saddam was a bad guy, but he wasn't a threat to the UK or the US in any way.

Sorry poodle boy, your argument is as weak as your support among the populace.

[Justice]

5. Not believable because it is different story than Tony said at the

time. Completely rewriting history.

He must feel completely threatened.

He keeps saying memos were already covered in an investigation. If I were a reporter, I would ask him whether the memos were turned over as part of the official inquiry. I think the memos are proof that the intelligence was sexed up.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. They weren't covered in the investigation

and I think he has thus misled Parliament (because he said that in Prime Minister's Questions yesterday). A member of the Butler inquiry has confirmed that they regarded the memo as 'outside our remit'. Hopefully Blair will at least have to make a public apology for lying to Parliament.

[mrfrapp]

12. Butler

I assume he's talking about the Butler inquiry. However, this just raises more questions than it answers. If Butler really did consider the minutes during the inquiry, then that simply proves that Butler is in the conspiracy too! The minutes are too plainly written to come to any conclusion other than that Blair conspired and misled Parliament.

[sendero]

6. Instant Poll...

... which is worth more?

1) any opinion or spin from Tony "Poodle" Blair

2) a bucket of warm spit

[Robbien]

9. Don't look now but the bucket of warm spit is leading

in the polls. Blair is contemplating the outlawing of people spitting into warm buckets.

[leesa]

10. Simply astonished that the controlled media let it out!

[bunny planet]

11. I guess you've received your 9/11exploitation talking points from

His Fraudulency King George, Tony

[Media_Lies_Daily]

13. Does he mean "astonished", or does he REALLY mean "mortified"?

[dArKeR]

14. Jesus is "astonished" too. Warning Graphic

[goclark]

25. The British Mafia Bosses - Tony and Cherie

[oly]

15. Toady Tony has "secret papers" that describe his heroic

role in the tragedy he cooked up with Bush. The DSM's are shown to be out of context and wrong. I say, bring them on Tony -- even cherry pick them if you want.

[billyoc]

16. I'm sure that many criminals in prison are astonished

that they ever got caught as well. :)

[Gregorian]

17. Dr. Kelly is REALLY astonished.

How do you feel about him, Prime Minister?

(Just notice that whenever Tony gets astonished, he's in defence mode. He's smirky, like Bush, when he is in normal mode. But very snippy and nervous when he's cornered. But he never backs down.)

[drm604]

18. I guess manufactured outrage has become passe

so now they're using manufactured astonishment.

[DearAbby]

21. For Prime Minister Tony Blair, the road to Iraq started with 9/11?

So let's cook the intelligence to make it happen. Isn't that right Tony? Problem is, Iraq posed no threat, but it does now. If securing Iraq were the objective, you think you would have captured all known munitions sites and sealed the borders?


Hey Tony, there were no WMDs. No one has sealed the borders. The known munitions sites were looted. Maybe you should have cooked up a plan? Did all the work go into trying to stage a threat, no time to make a detailed plan?

It was all totally backassed. But that is to be expected. Bullies going after a weak kid for his lunch money. Hey maybe that was part of the plan...you two, thought it would be a piece of cake.

Now you sit there and wonder, why is this getting so much attention. Look at the news coming out of Iraq, Tony. There is your answer. All on cooked intelligence.

Hey Tony, Where is Osama Bin Ladin? Was he any part of the plan?

::Smiley flipping the bird:::

[WePurrsevere]

22. Sorry to post & run but was so flabbergasted by this article..

that I wanted to share it with others here before I had to run out on personal business.

The whole interview reads like a smarthy salesperson saying he'd never snooker you into buying anything but the best as he tries to smooth talk you into buying the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's just another spin by another guilty party to this whole disgusting and murderous mess. What has never added up right to me, and perhaps someone here knows something I've missed, is did Bush and Blair get to be so cozy so fast and how on earth did Bush come to "own" Blair? Is Blair truly as power hungry and lacking in conscience as Bush, is it just about the oil, does Bush have something else Blair wants/needs or perhaps wants to hide?

[ernstbass]

23. Can somebody buy this man a clue????

[cestpaspossible]

24. How lame, the word 'astonished' appears only in the title.

I'm not interested in a one word quote... wtf did Blair say? Where is the sentence he uttered with the word 'astonished' in it and what question was it in response to?

PAISLEY DODDS and DAN PERRY learn to do your fucking jobs, please.

[Canuckistanian]

26. I'm sure the Iraqis are "astonished", too.

Along with feeling shocked and awed.

[jokerman93]

27. I'm astonished too! Simply Amazing!

"The attacks, he said, made it necessary to "draw a line in the sand here, and the country to do it with was Iraq because they were in breach of U.N. resolutions going back over many years."

Is the man misinformed? Does he believe that Iraq was in violation of the U.N. order? Is there proof Saddam was in violation? Have our military search-arrest-and-torture teams in Iraq finally found the missing suitcase with all the WMDS? Has anyone checked with Hans Blix or David Kelley?

Or...is he merely repeating the same fantasy as Bush in hopes of rewriting history by repeating lies until the ignant masses believe it happened that way??? Rhetorical questions? Not really. I'd just like to know if our "World Leaders" are simply lying their asses off, or are they suffering from some kind of collective Neocon cognitive dissonance?

Do I (a peasant/consumer/laborer far outside the power loop), somehow have more facts? Do I know more about current events than half the congress, Preznit Howdy Doody, and "his little friend" Prime Diddler Tony Blair???

[mojavekid]

28. "STFU Blair, you * Toady!"

What a condescending prick..

[Timmy5835]

29. But NEVER said they were a lie

Blair said he was "astonished" by the coverage but NEVER said the minutes were a fabracation. Very interesting.

[Pachamama]

30. GASP...your kidding, right Tony? Truly Astonished are you?

:wow: