Every now and then I remember exactly why I dislike Tony Blair so much

[Caligula]

Like now, when he can't bring himself to comment on Saddam Hussein's execution.

Even Dubya has commented on it, FGS. What is the matter with that pusillanimous creep, our PM? Is he really so afraid of offending someone by saying the wrong thing? Why can't he comment?

Yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk, he's horrid.

There, feel a bit better now I've got that off my chest.

I think by now even georgie boy wants this war over.

do you think so?....Well actually I was under that impression...but according to the news..he has definately asked for more money...to send more troops in...Does he think 20 thousand more men with guns is gonna end this quickly???

Surely he would have filed to get them all out of there if he really wanted this to stop??

here have a read

Its the democrats that seem to want to stop his madness....

On the news this morning they said that the MOD is increasing the recruiting age for new soldiers from 26 to 32 (I think I have the right age ?) which means that some soldiers could be involved in armed conflict until they are 55 !

How old is TB ? Does he fancy a stint in Iraq (with his sons perhaps, so that they don't just spend all their time having parties in mummy's expensive Bristol flat !!) ?

He said in an interview that he wanted "to do something truly worth while" after leaving as PM.

How about showing that he had actually done something worth while while he was STILL IN OFFICE ?

Since you started the war Tony, how about fighting in Iraq for a few months, it might be a worth while career change for you love ?

Rosk - vote rigging here in the UK ? How dare you suggest it ? {grin]

"Tony Blair is the sycophants sycophant and I can't believe anyone holds so much of a shred of respect for him.

Not only that but he and his cronies have ruined Britain.

I have felt during his "reign" like the boy in The Emperor's New Clothes wondering why no one else can see the obvious. New Labour are nasty through and through, at least with the Tories they didn't pretend to be anything other than b*stards. You knew where you were with the Tories but Labour are sleazy, slimy and two-faced."

thanks Twoif - my obs exactly...I smelled a nasty whiff from New Labour being a Labour voter up until that point.
They got in because Tories were sooo bad and sleazy...country wanted a spring clean with a notion of integrity and honesty....FGS!!

The dempocrats just want to pick a fight thats all. Its the first time they've had any power in quite a while so they just want to exercise a bit of it.

I agree that I don't think more troops will help, but I do believe that he thinks it will.

oh and more troops for peace in Iraq?? Does remind of the old slogan "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity".

I have voted Lib Dems since being old enough to vote, they never even get close....Its a shame...but you never know!....

Pann, who is that quote from ? It's excellent !

agree totally with Pruni

and I like him, btw. I still do and I always have.

so there

If Bush thinks more violence will stop the fighting he's bonkers....
It just turns a two way battle into a three way battle!

Who from??

Someone who had frequented the toilets in the "Wedding House" pub in Liverpool in the early 1980s. Second stall on the left, in the gents, as you walk in, if memeory serves me correctly(prob. still there!).....it was scrawled on the back of the stall door.......

pmsl when I read it, but was in the right place to do so!!!!!!

Its a cute quote but unfortunatly sometimes fighting is a bit neccessary.

hang on to your hats!

scary reading

Aw, paula..we know that! Don't spoil the mood, eh?

It doesn't suprise me that Cheney and Scummy Rummy would be behind something like that. They are both incrediably evil people.

Lets see what happens next then!!!

Mind you if anything did...wouldn't that be WAY too obvious?????

Pann, the gents's loo, did you say ?

Ah, well completely missed it then because I used the 3rd cubicle from the left in the ladies loo

Cappuchino - please talk us through your reasons for liking him. It's a mystery to me and I'd be interested to know why people like him. Everyone I know loathes him, I've always loathed him and was never remotely attracted by him even in the dark days of Major, and so I find it fascinating when people say they like him and wonder why.

pann, i agree we sure are fucking hard for peace right now
this war in iraq, afganistan, toleration of certain dictors (indonesia, etc), vilification of others is part of the declared plan of the neo-cons in washington in power right now to build what they term 'The New American Century' google it, and find out more its scary reading people
i feel we are in the lord of the rings evil v good scenario, and i hope am wrong, very wrong

Isn't Cheney the one who shot his own lawyer by mistake because he thought he was a duck ?

Ok, DO NOT send Cheney to Iraq, he might mistake his own arse for an Iraqi insurgent !

I don't think he's that bad

but I do think this hanging around where everyone knows he's not going to be leader much longer is not doing anyone any favours

makes him look like an impotent leader (because he is now)

means the Tories are just hanging around because they haven't got someone to fight against

means Gordon is just twiddling his thumbs, buying his time till he is crowned

means there's almost no point in foreign leaders talking to Blair because his influence isn't going to mean much for much longer

I also think Beckett making the statement was yet another sign that Blair's power has dwindled to almost nothing. I can't believe that any other prime minister so involved in the Iraq War (as we have been) would not have made a statement on that.

It all makes me very insecure TBH...since focussing my attentions to the whole political world I don't sleep so well...and It saddens me it really does...

LOL at mistaking his lawyer for a duck