28 January 2005
Blair clubs Bush with a powder puff
At the World Economic Forum, the New York Times reported that Tony Blair rebuked his old pal Dubya, for behaving as a unilateral bully in the global school yard.
I choked on my corn flakes when Blair spouted, "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too. It can do so, secure in the knowledge that what people want is not for America to concede but to engage."
That's a bit rich coming from someone who was up to his eyeballs in that farcical Broadway musical called "Very Genuine Reasons to Invade Iraq." Right now, there's a good bet that a sizeable number of "liberated" Iraqis just want the incredible shrinking "Coalition of the Willing" to get the hell out of their country rather than "engage" as dear old boy Tony calls it.
He then went on to say, "America accepts that terrorism cannot be defeated by military might alone. The more people live under democracy, with human liberty intact, the less inclined they or their states will be to indulge terrorism or to engage in it. By its very nature, such a mission cannot be accomplished alone. It is the very antithesis of isolationism; the very essence of international engagement. It requires long-term cooperation."
Really? So why did the neo-con White House; aided and abetted by Tony Blair and John Howard, thumb their noses at the UN and engage in an illegal war based on lies - proven by no less than the US Congress? Is Blair saying that Bush and his partners in crime now want the rest of the world to help bail them out of the mess in Iraq? That must be some good dope he's been smoking.
Tony, where was your self-serving and self-righteous rhetoric before the invasion of Iraq not after your lies have been exposed and when an election is looming?
Remember that old sign in a crockery shop? It says, "If You Break It, You Pay For It."
I choked on my corn flakes when Blair spouted, "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too. It can do so, secure in the knowledge that what people want is not for America to concede but to engage."
That's a bit rich coming from someone who was up to his eyeballs in that farcical Broadway musical called "Very Genuine Reasons to Invade Iraq." Right now, there's a good bet that a sizeable number of "liberated" Iraqis just want the incredible shrinking "Coalition of the Willing" to get the hell out of their country rather than "engage" as dear old boy Tony calls it.
He then went on to say, "America accepts that terrorism cannot be defeated by military might alone. The more people live under democracy, with human liberty intact, the less inclined they or their states will be to indulge terrorism or to engage in it. By its very nature, such a mission cannot be accomplished alone. It is the very antithesis of isolationism; the very essence of international engagement. It requires long-term cooperation."
Really? So why did the neo-con White House; aided and abetted by Tony Blair and John Howard, thumb their noses at the UN and engage in an illegal war based on lies - proven by no less than the US Congress? Is Blair saying that Bush and his partners in crime now want the rest of the world to help bail them out of the mess in Iraq? That must be some good dope he's been smoking.
Tony, where was your self-serving and self-righteous rhetoric before the invasion of Iraq not after your lies have been exposed and when an election is looming?
Remember that old sign in a crockery shop? It says, "If You Break It, You Pay For It."
