Tony Blair

JP5 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 04:41 PM

The U.S. people will miss Tony Blair. He's been such a great friend---not only of this administration, but the last one. He's a TRUE friend to the United States. He's a great leader who realizes the extreme importance of this fight against terrorism and the world will miss him. And certainly the United States people will miss Tony Blair.

Good-bye, Dear Friend....and God speed!!!

"What I know is the world needs courage and what I know is this good man is a courageous man." President Bush, May 17, 2007

amepro · #2 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 06:06 PM

Goodbye Tony Blair and good luck

Ummm.... You may want to try to remove that brown smudge of your nose.

f100supersabr · #3 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by amepro";p=&quot

Goodbye Tony Blair and good luck

Ummm.... You may want to try to remove that brown smudge of your nose.

Cost of toilet paper = $0.87
Look on JP's face when she read it = PRICELESS

JP5 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 07:39 PM

Nah....nothing surprises me when it's coming from Dems. They are a pretty crass group.

DuH2 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 12:03 AM

He was a good leader and friend of the USA.

justabubba · #6 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 04:57 AM

while his brown nosed support for the bush agenda cost him support at home, it is dubya who is diminished in blair's presence. tho i was unable to find the text of his most poignant remarks during the 05/17/07 press conference describing the iraq invasion rationale here are some quotes from that event to compare and contrast:

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And you know, you can debate about the mistakes and the issues, and you can debate about Iraq, whether we should have done this or we should have done that, but actually what is happening in Iraq today is that our enemy is fighting us.

And therefore, if what happens when our enemy fights us is that we drift away from our friends, that we kind of make the little accommodations so that we don't escape some of the difficulty and the responsibility and occasionally opprobrium of decision-making, if we do that, our enemy takes heart from that. They watch that; they watch what we're doing the whole time. They ask, "Are these guys standing up for what they believe; or if we carry on, is their will going to diminish and they're going to give up because it's just too difficult, because the public opinion's too difficult or the opinion polls tell them it's too difficult."

Now that is the decision of leadership, and it's not just a decision for me and him, it's a decision for everybody who's engaged in politics. And people run down politics and say it's all, you know, just a series of positions and attitudes and sound bites, and occasionally even lies and all the rest of it. Actually, what politics is in the end, when it's done in the right way, when people stand up for what they believe, is it's about public service, and there's nothing to be ashamed of in that. And the fact is, the decisions are difficult; of course they're difficult. And we took a decision that we thought was very difficult.

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It is about us remaining steadfast, because what we are fighting, the enemy we are fighting is an enemy that is aiming its destruction at our way of life and anybody who wants that way of life. And in those circumstances, the harder they fight, the more determined we must be to fight back. If what happens is the harder they fight, the more our will diminishes, then that's a fight we're going to lose, and this is a fight we can't afford to lose.

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“And thank you also for the strength of your leadership over the past few years. You have been a strong leader at a time when the world needed strong leadership. You've been unyielding and unflinching and determined in the fight that we face together, and I thank you for that.”

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“… I find it interesting that the first two questions are, you know, is this the right guy? Well, he happens to be your prime minister, but more importantly he is a respected man in the international arena. People admire him. Even if they may not agree with him 100 percent, they admire him a lot. And it's not just the American president who admires him. A lot of people admire him. “And so he's effective. You know, he's effective because he is -- his recommendations to solve problems are sound. And he's also effective because he is the kind of person who follows through. There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot air artists, people who have got something, you know, fancy to say. Tony Blair is somebody who actually follows through with his convictions, and therefore is admired in the international community.”

it will not be a difficult task to select the above quote which emanated from our president. speech writers are on the payroll, for God's sake; why does dubya show up at these events without a prepared response ... not even notes?

EiregoSod · #7 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by DuH2";p=&quot

He was a good leader and friend of the USA.

he's a good leader if you like your leader to spin, spin, spin...

so good in fact , that the British public isn't sad to see him go.

JP5 · #8 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 06:40 AM

Blair ALSO supported the Clinton agenda as well. That's why I say that Blair is a great friend to AMERICA. That means no matter who leads the current administration.

BTW, Dems loved Blair when he was buddy-buddy with Clinton.