Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity'

[Octafish]

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Tony the Poodle earning his chow:

Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity'

By Simon Hooper, CNN

London, England (CNN) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush was a "true idealist" who displayed "genuine integrity and political courage," former British prime minister Tony Blair reveals in his memoirs.

Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. and during the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003, Blair writes that Bush was "very smart" while having "immense simplicity in how he saw the world."

"Right or wrong, it led to decisive leadership... he sincerely believed in spreading freedom and democracy," he writes in "A Journey;" which hit book stores in the UK on Wednesday.

SNIP...

While Bush was persuaded of the merits of pursuing a further U.N. resolution over Iraq and the benefits of assembling a coalition ahead of an invasion, Blair says former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was "unremittingly hard line."

"He thought that the world had to be made anew, and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency. So he was for hard, hard power," he writes.

CONTINUED...

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/01/blair.memoirs.bush.clinton/?hpt=C1#fbid=4osdpjwUp1T&wom=false

What a load of malarkey. Blair's memoire reveals the international nature of the BFEE in the service of Old Money, at the expense of the rest of us "little people."

[dipsydoodle]

1. Yep - about the same level

as a dandelion with matching thinking power.

[Octafish]

9. Tony Blair: ‘I wanted war – it was the right thing to do’

Thus sprach the poodle.

[blm]

2. Bush was for 'hard, hard power' that usurped many of our rights and TeaBaggers applauded all the way

and called his conjob push for NWO 'leadership' and 'patriotism' and all those stuck cleaning up AFTER Bush's violent, fascist quests are now 'scary' to them.

Asshats. Lying or stupid asshats.

[Octafish]

10. Whatever happened to that freedom of the press thing?

Remember how mad Washington Post got when Democrats.com asked for some follow-up on the Downing Street Memo?

WaPo's Dana Milbank Attacks Democrats.com by Name

[theophilus]

3. "immense stupidity".....n/t

[Octafish]

11. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- George Walker Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

Actual Warmonkey quote.

Edit: URL mispastie.

[unhappycamper]

4. The Poodle yaps. n/t

[Octafish]

12. The poodle chews it.

Poodle bites.

Dr. David Kelly ("suicide") death inquest may be reopened (Spokesman for Attorney General says)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I'm sorry Tony. Could you repeat that? I couldn't make out what you were saying because

of Bush's cock in your mouth.

[Octafish]

14. That's not why he's going to hell, though.

Blair’s lies that led to war in Iraq

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. I don't believe in hell, but no of course not. He's got plenty of things to answer for. nt

[driver8]

18. Ha Ha -- I was thinking the same thing!! n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Of course, to him it was simple. He did whatever Cheney, Rove, and PNAC told him to do.

[tanyev]

7. That's one way to describe it.

And also why it was so appealing to the die-hard Bush fans.

[asjr]

8. All of us knew he is simple-minded.

[dkf]

13. I would say that is a good assessment of Bush and Cheney.

Mr Simple and Mr Hard Line.

[Doctor_J]

15. So does Bush himself

duh

[Hubert Flottz]

16. "A Journey;"

"A Journey;" laughing all the way on their "Journey" to the bank

[phantom power]

17. So did Aristotle's physics -- but it was fucking wrong.

[BurtWorm]

19. Well, considering it came from an immense simpleton...

It's not surprising.

[gratuitous]

20. Bush? "Genuine integrity"?

I'll bet you fancy yourself fluent in English, Mr. Blair. But I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.

[Solly Mack]

21. So Blair follows the orders of the simple-minded

[bobthedrummer]

23. Lap dog k&r n/t

[COLGATE4]

24. Nothing more than a pseudo-intellectual circle-jerk

between Dim Son and his favorite Poodle. They can both be damned to hell.

[JDPriestly]

25. Blair had a good editor: What he really wrote was" Bush's view of the

world was immensely SIMPLISTIC. What a rotter that Tony Blair is.

[Festivito]

26. The simply ideal immense lack of integrity seemed genuine.

Funny how decisive and smart can seem glib or flip and plainly dumb in in that old 20/20 hindsight.

[bobthedrummer]

27. For those of US that grasp deep politics Blair and New Labour= our New Democrats/DLC kick n/t

[ismnotwasm]

28. "he sincerely believed in spreading freedom and democracy,"

Oh, bullSHIT he did.

[Uncle Joe]

29. "Freedom and democracy" my ass, Bush has only done everything he could to tear it down here at home.

Why on Earth would would he be motivated to spread freedom and democracy elsewhere?

Thanks for the thread, Octafish.

[Amonester]

30. And the lesser people who suffer and die

http://antiwar.com/casualties/list.php un-necessarily because of his 'immense simplicity' are just nobodies who don't have a say and deserve to die for his big oil and big military buddies bottom lines.

FY blair, you insensitive sellout ($4,000,000.00 up front for his bs book) tyrant.

[bobthedrummer]

31. kiss kick n/t