Telling Bush he has got it wrong is what Blair must do

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=511901

Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on an historic challenge facing the Prime Minister

16 April 2004

Today's rendezvous at the White House is the most crucial diplomatic meeting of Tony Blair's career, as the political futures of both himself and George Bush hang on pulling Iraq back from the brink. A change in events on the ground must start with a change of approach in the White House, but securing such a shift in direction will not be easy, and the personalities of the two participants make it more difficult.

Tony Blair is a man of immense, attractive charm, which he maintains by shrinking from disagreeable exchanges. Everyone who has worked with the Prime Minister is familiar with the universal tendency of visiting dignitaries to leave pleased with what they have heard - or what they believe they have heard. Spelling out bluntly to someone as powerful as the President of the United States that he has got it wrong is what Tony Blair must do today.

It does not help that George Bush keeps reminding us that he has got the Almighty on his side. This cramps his scope for tactical flexibility, and his statement on Iraq this week exuded the certitude of revealed religion.

Half the problem is that a year after "liberating" Iraq, President Bush will keep discussing the continuing US presence in the terms of "waging a war", "staying on the offensive" and "defeating enemies". There is no prospect of his leading a successful reconstruction of Iraq so long as he regards large parts of its population as enemies.


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[dolo amber]

1. Yeah, whatever

He's only saying this because he saw this yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1408991

:D

[saigon68]

2. SPEAK BLUNTLY?? don't think so

[daa]

3. LAP LAP LAP nt

[saigon68]

5. That would be the "POODLE"

LOL

[Malva Zebrina]

4. *I find it amusing that anyone thinks that Blair will offer any advice to

the idiot that presides over our country

He has not shown any propensity to do so in the pastl, so why should he do so now?

I have as much respect for
Blair as I do for Bush--which is zero

Although Blair's choice of a mate in Cherie Blair, a lawyer, seems to have more class than Bush's choice of a pickled, insipid, librarian, who quit working the minute she married into the Bush family,after only two or three years in the work force, who is so banal as to be relatively dried up, Stepford like and withering in her old age already.

She is just leeching off her husband's name at this point and also the American taxpayer, who has sent this joker smiling boob on a couple of real classy vacations in Europe so far, and is totally dependant upon him , the wonderful husband without ability to show his care for her, for the rest of her subservient life. She has, indeed lost her soul.

But she will not come out of it in too bad a shape unless the Bushies decide to drop her and her monetary pay or whoredom pay for "sticking by her man", no matter how insane and no matter how many he has murdered under the guise of an illegal invasion.

So she will continue to play the subservient whore --for the money, because she is really incapable of supporting herself and is totally dependant upon the Bush family for her life. And probably for her thoughts. She is indeed, a lost soul.

And I really do not think she cares.

[xray s]

6. Yeah...and blow his future gig on the board of the Carlisle Group

ain't gonna happen