Blair 'feels betrayed by Bush on Lebanon'

[allemand]

By SIMON WALTERS22:57pm 19th August 2006

The alliance between George Bush and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the Prime Minister believes the President has 'let him down badly' over the Middle East crisis.

A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr Bush's record on the issue was 'crap'.

The source said: "We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?"

The disclosure comes ahead of a mini recall of Parliament to allow MPs to vent their fury over Mr Blair's handling of Israel's war with Hezbollah and whether the recent terror plot in Britain was affected by his role in the Iraq war.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401414&in_page_id=1770

[panader0]

1. Bullshit. Blair and bush are in cahoots on the Lebanon thing

they are in cahoots on the "plane terrorist plot" and on many more things. Blair is the English bush. Hie ratings are in the shitcan too. Fuck them both.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Exactly, this is another of Blair's endless lies about his relationship

with Bush. They are both in cahoots, and Blair should be sacked!

[0007]

29. Right on! They just take turns shilling for each other.

[babylonsister]

2. Then Blair shouldn't have come over here to 'stand by his man' and

be dimson's mouthpiece.
Could this be influencing this current mindset?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1220294.ece

Left-wingers rally behind Prescott to demand Blair quits over Iraq

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 19 August 2006

Demands for Tony Blair to quit over his support for US President George W Bush in the Middle East are to be taken to Labour's annual conference next month in a direct challenge to his leadership by left-wing Labour campaigners.

An emergency resolution will be sent to all constituency Labour parties calling for Mr Blair to quit because of his "disgraceful" policy in Iraq, and for a leadership election within two months of the conference.

Mr Blair will seek to shrug off the challenge, but it has been tabled by leaders of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, who successfully backed four candidates elected to the National Executive of the party, including the veteran anti-war campaigner Walter Wolfgang.

The calls for Mr Blair to go will be boosted by the burst of support for John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, since the The Independent disclosed that he said President Bush's performance on the Middle East road map was "crap".

Mr Prescott is worried the remark may damage him, but there has been support for his words about Mr Bush to a private meeting of MPs. "I think he could get a standing ovation now," said one of his close friends. "He's said what a lot of us have been thinking."

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[Greeby]

3. This is the Daily Mail, the most untrustworthy paper on the newsstand nt

[Gregorian]

7. Yep. The Daily Mail is not too unlike our Inquirer.

That crappy tabloid at the checkout stands in grocery stores. The one with the alien abduction stories. Complete with pictures.

[Demit]

20. A gentle correction: you mean the ENquirer.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a fairly decent paper.

[wakeme2008]

4. Blair is using the Kenny WHO defense... nt

[graywarrior]

5. .

:nopity:

[BrklynLiberal]

14. My sentiments..exactly.

[dipsydoodle]

6. A man of such low intellect

I'm surprised he gave him that much credit. IQ of a plant is nearer the mark.

[geomon666]

18. Hey easy with the plant bashing.

They contribute a lot more to the planet than any Bush ever has. :)

[dipsydoodle]

36. Sorry about that

I do take your point and I maybe should have said amoeba. You ok on those ? :)

[geomon666]

39. Bush is an insult to any form of living entity.

So yea. :)

[wildwww2]

8. I feel betrayed by Bu$h. And I have never accepted the maggot as my

President.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Kailassa]

9. "How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?"

That phrase does not ring at all true.

I bet it was: "How can anyone have faith in such a fuckwitted moron?"

[knowbody0]

10. he shoulda just told Syria to cut this shit out!

[SquireJons]

13. Who will tell Israel to stop killing women and children? n/t

[jwirr]

12. If Blair does not recognize that he was betrayed by *ss from

the beginning of the Iraq war then he is still blind. How does it feel to be used, Tony?

[MasonJar]

15. Well. too bad, Tony. Over here in the US we feel betrayed by

both of you. Iraq and Lebanon were both bad ideas based on lies and you knew it. Pea brain only goes by his gut feeling, but you allegedly think.
Actually Blair's probably equivocating again, trying to survive the blow up in the House of Commons.
The British are smarter than our nuts in D.C. Party or not they go for the truth.

[regnaD kciN]

16. Not the first time, eh, Tony-Boy...?

Remember when you decided to go along with Bush's Iraq invasion? Word had it that you had agreed in exchange for Bush making a concerted effort to get an Israeli/Palestinian peace agreement that would result in a two-state solution.

Well, you did your part. Without your wholehearted backing, who knows whether we would have been able to get the resolution through the U.N. that Bush then used as a pretext to invade? You were a key enabler of our takeover of Iraq...and all that has followed from it.

And what did you get in return? In quick succession: Bush breaking off contacts with the Palestinian Authority, developing a "road map" that put all the onus on the Palestinian side while pushing the Israeli obligations off into the distant future, giving full support to Israel's "defensive" invasion of the West Bank, which left the Palestinian economy and infrastructure in ruins (sound familiar?), and breaking with decades of U.S. policy and U.N. resolutions by giving his imprimateur to Israel holding on to vast settlement blocs (containing the best land and aquifers) in any future West Bank partition...that is, if the Palestinians every managed to comply with the obligations Bush demanded of them -- amounting to virtual surrender, full disarmament, and a lengthy period of quiescence -- that would allow any partition at all.

Great deal, wasn't it, Tony-Boy?

And now you go along with Bush on a similar destruction of Lebanon, under an identical promise as last time, and you're surprised when he forgets all about it again?

Good boy, Tony. Roll over. Here's a nice doggy biscuit for you.

(And, for any other world leader -- if any still remain -- who might be tempted to make a similar deal with Boy George, here's a suggestion: demand payment before delivery this time.)

You know what's especially galling? The upshot of all this will probably be the election in Britain of a Conservative government that will hew even more closely to the Bush administration without even requesting anything in return. Good show, Tony-Boy. You've managed to destroy the Labour Party just as effectively as the DLC would wish to do to the Democrats.

:grr:

[sweetheart]

17. Is all about love, actually

i'm preprogrammed to love blair and cynically undermine all persons who quesiton
the common sense reforms of the corporate mac-third way.

[rodeodance]

19. oh well, jr always has little bald headed Howie from downunder.

[AusGail]

22. Thank you, someone has finally given John Howard the recognition he

deserves.

He is a sniveling liar, but unfortunately he has the backing of Rupert Murdoch. If you were to read the Murdoch newspapers in this country, you wouldn't even know there was a war on in Iraq, let alone anything else that may be happening in the Middle East. Please feel free to put shit on Howard any time you like.

[goforit]

21. You mean Blair didn't enjoy the slaughter of innocent for entertainment?

Well hell, good old George W Bush had a grand old time!!

Popcorn, bratwurst and beer and while he watched Fox 24/7.

Well, Blair, he your accomplice and best bud!

[salin]

23. Tony, you are just figuring out that Bushco has used and screwed

you over ten times from here to Albany?

Trying to make up for that little embarassing video of bush demeaning your "offer" (as if it is up to bush?) to work on the issue, as he dismisses you and tells you Condi is on the job? (as if what the US sec. of state does in anyway should shape what you can and can not do?)

What a joke.

Wish I had a link to the controversial George Michael video "tribute" to Blair... it seems appropriate here.

[w4rma]

24. They are both good con-artists. (nt)

[lala_rawraw]

25. a man of such low intellect? um, did he not notice this b4?

[Lisa]

26. intellect is different from sneakiness!

Regardless of whether this leak is true ... I think it's important to consider that Bush is definitely sneaky and underhanded! There are plenty of people of "low intellect" (could be due to mental retardation, lack of education, or disinterest in the kinds of things which our society associates with "intellectuals") whom I would trust far more than Bush.

Not to say that Bush can't also be an idiot, of course.

[Imagevision]

27. "faith in a man of such low intellect?" precisely...!

[Vidar]

28. Testify against the bastard, Tony. Save your neck.

[babylonsister]

30. OOh, good idea! Start with the Downing Street Memos! nt

[The Sower]

31. The Poodle says, "What kind of girl do you think we are?"

(Chorus line)
What kind of girl do you think we are?
What kind of girl do you think we are?
Don't call us groupies
That is going too far
We wouldn't ball you
Just because you're a star

http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/F/frank-zappa-lyrics/frank-zappa-what-kind-of-girl-do-you-think-we-are--lyrics.htm

[wryter2000]

41. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[The Sower]

45. Thanks!

I'm glad I made it.

[Harper_is_Bush]

32. What is the reputation of the Daily Mail?

Is it a leftist publication?

[CJCRANE]

33. It's right-wing (nt)

[LeftishBrit]

37. No, it's right-wing and nasty

It's sometimes referred to as the "Daily Hate" or "Hate-Mail". They are particularly noted for whipping up hostility to all immigrants and asylum-seekers. Their news reports are known for being sensational and unreliable.

This may give you an idea:

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

[roguevalley]

34. what a complete bastard. waaaa, Mr. Blair. Now go away.

[radfringe]

35. heh

[EFerrari]

38. LOL!

Good one. :)

[wryter2000]

40. Well, Tony

Why don't you make him sleep on the couch for a few nights?

[Marrak]

42. Well, he can

think, eat and talk with his mouth full! I've seen it!
and "Russia is big, China is big"!

[wryter2000]

44. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[ljm2002]

43. It took him this long to figure out...

...that Bush cannot be trusted? That he is a man of low intellect? That he will always, always turn on his "friends" when they have outlived their usefulness?

What crap.