Just learn to accept that Bush has won, says Blair

[emad]

The Times
By Philip Webster and Peter Riddell



http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,158166,00.jpg
'I do not feel we have been acting out of blind loyalty or out of compulsion as an ally' - Tony Blair (CHRIS HARRIS)

EUROPEAN leaders must emerge from their “state of denial” and wake up to the fact that they will be dealing with President Bush for the next four years, Tony Blair says today.

In an appeal to America and the countries that opposed the war in Iraq to come together, the Prime Minister tells The Times: “The election has happened. America has spoken. The rest of the world should listen.” He adds: “It is important that America listens to the rest of the world too. But the fact is that President Bush is there for four years. He is there because the American people have chosen to elect him.” Without naming his targets, Mr Blair says:

“Some people are in a sort of state of denial.” He predicts they will soon be in a “more receptive mood”.

Mr Blair spoke to The Times before travelling to Brussels for a European summit, where he expected the first discussions last night to be about the re-election of Mr Bush and an agenda on which they could move forward together. He makes plain that he will take his role as a bridge between the two continents even more seriously than before, saying Britain is “uniquely placed” because of its “immensely strong” alliance with America to mark out the common ground for agreement.
More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,174,00.html

BLIND loyalty/compulsion: How about just sticking to the pact to gag all reference to Enron????????????????

[Skittles]

1. F*** YOU, YOU WARMONGERING BASTARD

FUCK YOU

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Skittles

you took the words right out of my mouth.

[AFSCME girl]

9. Mine too!

Stupid asshat, Blair :mad:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

26. and mine.... where is the indignation about furriners messin

in aur electshions now?

[PaDUer]

30. The best thing for Blair's wife

to do, is divorce the whacko, and let him live w/ his pal, shrub! Let him and his pals get their asses over there and fight their own war.

[Zorra]

73. Yuh, Tony. Read: "Just learn to accept that Hitler is your Fuehrer -

Everyhthing will be just fine. So what if he kills a few million more innocent people. Relax. Enjoy!"

"OBEY the Fuehrer."

Hey, England, we are sorry about Bu$h. He stole another election. We will try to get him out of office anyway we can.

In the meantime, please get rid of phony Tony!

[emad]

2. End Bush 'denial' Blair tells EU

BBC:


Tony Blair is urging European leaders to wake up from their "state of denial" over President Bush's re-election.

"America has spoken. The rest of the world should listen," the prime minister said in an interview with The Times newspaper, published on Friday.

Mr Blair is at a summit in Brussels, where Iraq and European justice and immigration plans are on the agenda.

French President Jacques Chirac reacted to his warning by saying Europe instead needed to reinforce its own unity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3984329.stm

[flygal]

5. That Blair has become a part of all this .....

really hurts. What do they have on this guy? It has got to involve animals!!

[Richardson08]

13. no country should lift a single finger to help out in Iraq

This is *'s war,it's *'s war,it's Dummy's war and it's the neo-con's war.Every dead soldier is blood on their hands

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Who does Blair think he is?

Neville Chamberlain?

I'm waiting for Tony to starting saying "peace in our time" any day now! :crazy:

[sweetheart]

43. He thinks he's relevant

Mr. Blair, you fail to recognize that 50% of america opposes bush,
that 50% that YOUR PARTY represents. That you cooperate to undermine
your own constituency's values, is sickening to say the least. I
think you shold send you sons to iraq so you suffer personally when
your people get murdered by your own hands.

I hope you apologize personally to the familes of black watch
solders you killed to get bush reelected, you greasy little piggie.

[Sequoia]

53. See my finger, see my thumb

Blair, you are so dumb! England is a sitting target. Friends in England...run for your lives!

[cubsfan forever]

61. Why is it that, with a couple of notable

exceptions, European leaders act like adults, while the Brits and the US act like spoiled children? Chirac is far more credible than either Poodle or Chimpy. He's also a WWII vet. How ironic, eh?

Oh, and FUCK YOU TONY!

Professor 2

[HappinessPie]

96. Bow down and kiss the Monkey King's ring and lick his boot, too, Tony...

you kowtowing asshole. I hope the world makes you its bitch. I am sick of you and your high and mighty dictates to the rest of Europe!

(Spoken as a near-future European...)

[frank frankly]

4. i hope your tiny, corrupt heart can't handle this, tony. you piece of shit

son of a thatcher.

[emad]

8. Junior needed Blair and massive scapegoating conflict like Iraq

to divert attention from ENRON.

Blair panicked in Spring 2002 and told the House of Commons: "There is NO Enron scandal in the UK".

His next authoritative statement to the House was that "Saddam is a real and continuing danger....Weapons of mass destruction......45 minute capability of striking Cyprus".
QED

[libbygurl]

6. Get stuffed, Tony!

What respect I had for Blair pre-Iraq war is now in the negative range.

How to explain your political agenda? Simple--

We know you're deep in Rupert Murdoch's pocket--

(this announced by Ted Turner during a talk with Charlie Rose this summer).

[Minstrel Boy]

7. Time to put down the poodle.

Annoying yappy little fucker.

[Sabriel]

10. New ambassador to the US: Mr. Ben Dover

Looks from the picture like Blair is just pulling up his pants....

[flobee1kenobi]

11. No one is going to

listen to or believe a word from either of them.
Check the news -its already started
Putin has gone ahead with HIS environmental policy-we've been left behind

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

12. Tony the whore

sold out his own now wants to sell out the rest of Europe...

What a f**king shithead...

might as well live these next 4 years as if they were your last - they probably are...

[Maiden England]

14. The policy is called Appeasment and it was started by Chamberlain

How did that work out for ya Neville? Huh?

[schultzee]

15. Cheney you Blair, you warmongering puppet of a monkey

[Sara Beverley]

16. You know, like it was in WWI and II, Just accept that Hitler has won!

Just accept that the US is about to committ genocide in Fallujah. Just shut up and accept it!!

[Benhurst]

17. I've got a message for you, Tony:

Bugger off!

[PSU84]

18. Fuck you, Lap Dog!

Why doesn't the UK dump that asshole?

[savistocate]

24. Dump yes--when is his reelection?

By a large majority Brits have been against his joining Iraq invasion.

Remember Tecumsehs curse is no mere Indian curse it is statistical fact. Seems more like that was added for poetic punch to the observation of year 0 US Presidents. The next in line
dick could be equally covered.

[emad]

19. Cartoon: Guardian's Steve Bell

[The Zanti Regent]

62. Nobody puts it better than Steve Bell

oh, and let me add another FUCK YOU PHONY TONY, too!

[Domitan]

65. Steve Bell is the political cartoonist of the year

His pictures just resonate!

[saigon68]

69. The poodle and the chimpanzee

What a lovely couple

[gratuitous]

20. Gosh, I'm sorry Mr. Blair

But I live in the United States, and think it's still got a good chance of being a free and open society. I know you've cast your lot with Sauron, but for some reason, I just can't quite grok throwing up the sponge without a fight. Hope you understand, old boy. It's nothing personal.

{Kicks Blair square in the nads} Or did that explain it better?

[emad]

21. Blair effigy burnt on bonfire:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14519898?source=PA

[lefthandedskyhook]

23. Burn, Tony burn

[emad]

22. Blair sparks anger with 'wake up' call over Bush

Evening Standard
5 November 2004

Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for Europe to wake up to the reality of George Bush's re-election as US President gained a frosty reception in Brussels today.

In a newspaper interview today, Mr Blair accused fellow EU leaders of being in a "state of denial" over the second Bush term and urged them to forge closer trans-Atlantic relations, particularly over the rebuilding of Iraq.

But French President Jacques Chirac countered that the EU needed to reinforce its own unity in a world which he said was increasingly divided.

While the Prime Minister claimed to have detected a readiness among his European colleagues to rebuild bridges with Washington, Mr Chirac pointedly stressed the need to develop EU cohesion in a "multi-polar" world.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14520116

[Endangered Specie]

25. God when are the UK elections...

Fuck Tony! Vote Lib Dem!!!! ;)

[D-Notice]

27. Some time before May 2006...

But probably going to be May 2005

[whirlygigspin]

36. appeasing bastard

Instead of acting like Neville Chamberlain,
Tony why don't you find out if the U.S. election was rigged or not and leak the report...and let the chips fall where they may, you fuckin poodle.

hello CSIS?

allo Paris, une enquete sur cette election,please, sauvez-nous
de ce cauchemar!

[LiberalFighter]

86. Essentially whenever the public decides...

I would imagine if the public gives their elected officials enough heat Blair will be forced out.

[Judi Lynn]

28. Bush has kept the respect others have for him world wide!

Fri 5 Nov 2004




Heroes and villains: George W Bush and Berti Vogts

Stewart Kirkpatrick
skirkpatrick at scotsman dot com

(snip)
Hero: Dubya
You've got to hand it to George Walker Bush. Everyone in the world thought he was a moronic, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, mindless puppet doing the bidding of his super-rich, neo-con, oil-soaked paymasters while paying lip service to the concerns of the great unwashed.

Instead it turns out he's a political genius.

The American economy is going down the toilet. It has a budget deficit ($4 trillion over the next 10 years) that would make Kim Jong Il blush. Worryingly, China and Hong Kong have accumulated $177 billion of US debt, giving the world's biggest dictatorship a great deal of economic power over the world's richest democracy.

Vast amounts have been squandered on enormous tax cuts that disproportionately favour the super-wealthy (the bottom 60% of US society got a mere 14.7% of Bush's $1.6 trillion giveaway, while the richest 1% got half of it). Meanwhile unemployment has rocketed. And for George, healthcare is just another word that begins with "h", like "Iran". In short, the ordinary American is getting royally shafted by the Bush administration.

And yet Dubya persuaded the suckers to vote for him. The man's a genius.

How'd he do it? Well, he made them scared. Not in the way he makes us scared - by having his finger on the nuclear trigger while looking very dim and slightly deranged - but by raising mythical bogeymen to terrify middle America.
(snip/...)

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1280652004
(Free registration is required)

On edit, adding more:

As a result we're in for an exciting four years of unfettered neo-con crusading. Especially if you live in or near a member of the axis of evil: Iran, North Korea, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, the Pitcairn Islands, France, San Francisco...

On the brighter side, US domestic policy's going to be dictated by extreme fundamentalists so the colonials might as well tear up that precious consitution of theirs and replace it with the Book of Leviticus.
(snip/)

[Moderator]

29. link through google

without going to registration page:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1345140,00.html

[MisterP]

31. to deh foppy feller in deh number 10:

go sit on yer thum!

[GRLMGC]

32. How are his approval ratings?

I heard not too many Brits were happy w/ him

[MattNC]

34. Labour's approval ratings are good enough

especially compared to the joke that has become the Tories.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

33. Blair is the Chamberlain of the 21st Century.

Both of them appease tyrants!

:argh:

[calimary]

37. So Tony wants everybody to just "get over it," 'eh?

Well, let me tell YOU something, Tony. It's not denial. It's MOURNING. Half of America is in that state at this very moment. I've had friends calling me, telling me about their friends calling them, telling them about THEIR friends calling THEM - and every last one of them is HEART-SICK.

I hope, if fewer people here have backbone that at least others do, around the globe. I, for one, CANNOT just magically change my mind and my thinking and decide that this war is just fine and going well, that wars of aggression against people who never attacked or threatened us are okay, that writing discrimination into our constitution is okay, that women losing the right to have the final say over what happens with their own bodyes is okay, that bullying people all over the world is okay, that the "my way or the highway" crap is okay, that "can't we all just get along - as long as everybody does what WE say?" is okay, that fomenting anger and discord and disunity and dishonesty is okay, that being the sneakiest, most deceptive, most narrow-minded regime in American history is okay. It's not okay for me. It will NEVER be okay for me. It's not okay for the rest of the world THAT WE HAVE TO SHARE, Tony. It's NOT okay. It's. Just. Not. Okay. It never will be. Nothing will EVER convince me that it's okay, and that it's something I should just get over. Anymore than your Churchill got over Hitler and decided to be okay with it.

[SoCalDem]

38. How sweet.. the British verson of .. "move on"..

:puke:

[emad]

41. or "Take your medicine like a real man".

Blair would have been toast with a Kerry victory and now needs Dumbo more than ever to stave off massive revolt from his own party who loathe Bush and the miserable WMD ntelligence failure.

[donsu]

39. would somebody please slap Blair in the mouth

nt

[RT Atlanta]

40. FUCKING LAP DOG

Panting like a bitch in heat at *'s re-selection. Hopefully your countrymen will wake up and get rid of you and at their next opportunity - one less member of the so-called "coalition."

[emad]

42. WE WON'T BE DUPED LIKE DUBYA'S DOPES: Daily Mirror

HOSTIL' injuns are on the edge of town, threatening yer wives 'n' cattle! And those pesky Democrats want you to shoot the Sheriff! Whaddya say to that?..............................

This corrupt exercise in mass deception cost a billion dollars in TV advertising and twice that in campaign expenses (some of them genuine).

But it was worth it for the big business interests that dominate American politics. Bush is back, sponsored by good 'ole US oil. If that is democracy, then I am the Count of Monte Cristo. If only bamboozled Yankees were involved, we could all go about our business without a care......................

This is, to use Hollywood jargon, a clear and present danger. But a more insidious and even more lethal menace lurks behind the victory of Ole Cross-Eyes. The Republicans mobilised as never before the politics of fear. They convinced a majority of US citizens that their homes and families were under immediate threat from al-Qaeda. They are not.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/paulroutledge/

[deek]

44. Note: Yesterday's front page available as .pdf

due to popular request!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14839273%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=download%2dour%2dbush%2delection%2dfront%2dpage-name_page.html

[Puglover]

45. Blow me Poodleboy

you accept him.

[Pithy Cherub]

46. Bush's useless frilly pink poodle speaks!

Does Blair get his talking points directly from Rover?

[bitchkitty]

47. The nerve - a state of denial?

This from chimpie's lapdog with plummeting ratings in his own country?

[Emillereid]

48. When are the Brits going to come to their senses and bring this

asshole down. I expect Americans to be stupid -- but I've always believed that the British were better educated and smarter.

[Raster]

49. Is it my imagination, or is poodle sporting a new collar?

Poor poodle, tried to cover his bets and sent an envoy to the Kerry camp JUST IN CASE. Now he may have to go back to obedience classes for a little remedial training.

[VegasWolf]

50. Blair say's, "Shut up and Bend over."

[Mist]

51. Just FOAD Poodle

[booksenkatz]

52. Come over here and put me in a more receptive mood, motherf*cker.

Just what exactly is it that you intend to do to put us in a more receptive mood? Off to the Hague with you, you bloodthirsty, spawny get.*

(* God, I haven't read a Spawny Get cartoon in a decade. Anyone familiar with those?)

[LiberalAndProud]

54. I, for one, am waiting for Great Britain to speak.

[emad]

55. Check this DU thread re: Black Watch soldier mourning his brother

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x961337

Especially the "arsehole.....oil & money" part.

This was on the front page of the London Evening Standard last night and on all the main UK TV News channels.

Sums this up pretty well.

[Darth_Kitten]

56. What an opportunistic WEASEL....

You miss the point, Tony, you self-righteous weasel, you CANNOT and SHOULD NOT have to bargain with liars, bullies, and tyrants.

American people have spoken? Where have you been?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

57. Hey Blair...how does it feel to have blood on your hands

Like a pig you should roll in it

[struggle4progress]

58. Just learn to accept that Blair is bought and paid for, says s4p. eom

[Straight Shooter]

59. State of denial? Projection, Blair, is not a flattering character trait

What a dope. He's lost it.

[allalone]

60. not all of us are as fast to bend over, Tony

I see you are pulling up your pants in the pic.

[antonialee839]

63. Woof Woof

[Moderate Dem]

64. I think that this is wrong...

Tony Blair was very helpful to Clinton too, and the Brits have more honor in the world today that America does, IMHO.

Tony Blair has made Britain the pre-eminent power in Europe, and I think that Britain is the best choice for that role.

He also accepts blame for his county's mistakes, something that I have never seen Bush do. He is an honorable man and a good leader, even if you disagree with him. I'll bet that he also was rooting for Kerry.

Just my opinion.

[muriel_volestrangler]

81. He refuses to apologise for the war

he has apologised for wrong information given 'in good faith'.

It's not the 'good faith' bits I object to; it's the lies that Alistair Campbell and his team concocted, made in extremely bad faith. Blair has, in fact, promoted the man who was in charge of transforming the intelligence, which was full of caveats, 'maybe's and 'possibly's, into certainties and fearmongering '45 minutes' quotes. When Campbell was caught red-handed trying to pass off a 10 year old thesis as current intelligence, Blair didn't sack him, or even rebuke him.

Blair has no honour left whatsoever. I actually trusted Thatcher more than him.

For someone who you think was 'rooting for Kerry', he seems to be rather overjoyed at Bush getting back in. Telling other European leaders to 'get over it', rushing off to see him; will Bush finally give him the Best in Show Obedience award that's been waiting for him for a year (aka the Congressional Gold Medal)?

[progressivebydesign]

66. Learn to accept you're an cowboy boot licking asshole! n/t

[alfredo]

67. Well, Tony poodle Blair can

go fuck himself.

[ignatius 2]

68. Hey Tony,fuck you and the horse you rode in on..You murdering

son of a bitch. Should we accept the dead women and children that you and that other war criminal have caused? How about the rape and torture of prisoners caused y your lust for oil.

The blood runs from your hands as much as from Chimpy's and a special place in hell will be waiting for you both.

How do you sleep at night, don't the armless childrens blood covered faces bother you at all? Are you so souless that the horror of what you have done does not phase you?

[mountainvue]

70. Ah, the poodle barks

on command. How cute.

[peacetalksforall]

71. I loathe that man. Everytime someone tells me what to do by using the

word JUST, I seethe - whether actually used or implied.

[Catherine Vincent]

72. Attention Tony Blair: No disrespect but

SHUT THE FUCK UP!


excuse my french!

[EndElectoral]

74. I have lost complete faith in Blair? Is that really the Labor Party?

[TexasLady]

75. where can i send him some knee pads

and a bit of chapstick...?

[CBHagman]

76. Not bloody likely, Tones.

He reminds me for all the world of the classic enabler, cleaning up for and justifying the abuser, drunk, etc.

Why doesn't he warn Bush that America is gaining enemies, not peace and not allies, thanks to Bush's policies? Does he think the world is going to utter an Emily Litella "Never mind" and simply comply with Bush?

I think it's Blair who's kidding himself.

[arewenotdemo]

77. Fuck you, Cabanaboy

[MADem]

78. He's trying to evoke a reaction

So he knows what to tell the weecowboy. He knows when he shows up here next week, that Bush is going to ask HIM to implement the "Kerry Plan" of engaging allies to internationalize the democratization of Iraq. The weecowboy cannot do the asking, because everyone HATES him and he has already said "Yer with us or agin us." For some reason, probably LOCATION, the weecowboy thinks Tony holds some sway over what he regards as those 'euro-toting bastards' (NOT!).

This is what happens when the moron in charge does not read the paper, and gets his news from Faux.

Tony knows he's gonna be asked to schmooze the EU, so he is letting them know ahead of time. Of course, the problem is that the "Good Deal" window passed when the insurgents in Iraq started killing soldiers. Had we given the Europeans contracts back at the outset, instead of being piggy and demanding all the lucre for ourselves, it would be much harder for EU countries to back out, they'd be invested and wanting their return...they might have even been persuaded to add a few troops in addition to contractors to the mix.

But NOW...it looks like a bad case of ever-diminishing returns over there. There's a lot of cost, and not much forseeable benefit, unless we declare martial law and shoot everyone on sight. That ain't gonna happen. We can feel the pinch of the rock and the hard place, thanks to the weecowboy.

[allalone]

85. bush is betting on the wrong horse

if he thinks blair has any juice with the european leaders. they know he's a pet poodle.

[LiberalBushFan]

79. If not for Blair

Bush would probably not have won (even after cheating). He was the only previously respected leader supporting Bush and gave him undeserved credibility (with Americans).

[Julien Sorel]

80. I am almost as sick of Blair as I am of Bush.

Something about the man screams out, "Slick, unprincipled politician!!!!!"

[Kurovski]

82. "Just learn to accept that Bush has won"

and the response to this is a move to impeach Blair.

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=966734>

[dansolo]

83. We should refer to Blair as Neville Chamberlain

The parallels are freightening.

[HappinessPie]

97. Yep, it's called APPEASEMENT & history will laugh you into oblivion, Blair

[bobthedrummer]

84. MR. BLAIR, SHUT YOUR BLEEDING HOLE!

[mutius]

89. Blair says Bush starts a new Federal funded program

Leave no asshole behind. It will help educate ignorant asshole to be better assholes.

[txindy]

87. We'll be helping British DUers remove him from office, next

I do believe.

[mutius]

88. No I won't accept Bush has stolen another election.

Voter fraud, fear tactics, and character assignation is how the asshole got back into office.

[truthbetold]

90. FUCK YOU.

n/t

[mitchum]

91. What, do I hear a small dog barking?

[madmax]

92. Tony Dahling - Kiss my Portuguese ASS n/t

[GRLMGC]

93. Blair needs to learn to accept that he's going to be impeached

He disgusts me.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

94. What else could we expect from *'s lapdog?

And how dare he tell us what to do and how to feel? Take care of your own business, asshole. They don't like you there too much either these days.

[DuaneBidoux]

95. Just learn to go Fuck Yourself Blair