Blair caved to White House on global warming, Iran?
By on May 28th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Blair caved to White House on global warming, Iran?
Via Josh Marshall, “Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening it on global warming in a speech he delivered Friday at Georgetown University, according to a British press report Sunday that Blair’s office immediately denied.”
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whats the surprise?
May 28th, 2006 at 8:22 pmDisappointment? Yes.
May 28th, 2006 at 9:59 pmSurprise? Sadly, No.
This was also in the British press. Blair has further endeared himself to his countrymen who despise him.
May 28th, 2006 at 10:11 pmBlair is no leader. He has earned his reputation as Bush’s poodle. He is simply more erudite and articulate than the boy-king, so he is better at promoting the Bush doctrine.
Well, at least nobody’s had any illusions about this choadwipe for about 5 years now.
May 28th, 2006 at 11:47 pm[...] Blair caved to White House on global warming, Iran?Think Progress, DC - 3 hours agoVia Josh Marshall, Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening it on global warming in a speech … [...]
May 29th, 2006 at 12:13 amTony, Sit!
Nice puppy…
50 Ways To Dump The Dubya
May 29th, 2006 at 12:58 amPut it to a vote in November.
All in favor of waging war in Iraq can choose to vote for the war, don their fatigues, and head out to Iraq. Not at all hard to do.
All those in favor of stopping the war in Iraq could choose the vote to stop the war in Iraq.
Let the people have the right to choose. A woman has a right to choose. The American people should have the right to choose to wage war.
Should the US wage war in Iraq? Yes or no?
May 29th, 2006 at 2:45 am# 3,Marie;
Insightful per usual.
May 29th, 2006 at 2:57 amLets face it Our prime minister has lost £750,000 on his house price in london after paying 3 million for the house
His wages are £250,000 a year and cherie on £500,000 as a human rights lawyer
Rumour is Blair has a job lined up working for the Carlyle Group on 1 million + a year
Basically he sold the UK out for money and used his time as PM for networking of foreign leaders ………………………thats why the Carlyle Group want him badly to sell more weapons
Most people in the UK hate him
May 29th, 2006 at 7:22 am#9 Tobey Tall,
Can you impeach Blair? Can the queen remove him from office? It is sad to read that Blair does whatever Bush wants him to do. Doesn’t Blair realize that Bush is making of fool of him or maybe he doesn’t care. Money talks and bulls**t walks.
May 29th, 2006 at 9:01 amI’m not buying it. Why would Blair cave in? He is closer to death, to the end than Bush and has a lot more to lose by associating with Bush than Bush does with him. It seems to me that at this point, giving anything to Bush wounds Blair and shortens the time that he can remain at Ten Downing street. There is a lot of things that we can reproach to Blair, but stupidity and lack of political sense are not among those things.
May 29th, 2006 at 9:11 amHey Poodle, want a Liv-a Snap?
-George W. Putsch
May 29th, 2006 at 10:02 amNeville Chamberlin gave into the war mongering dicatator known as Hitler. Tony Blair gave in to a war mongering dictator wannabe, known as George W. Bush.
-GSD
May 29th, 2006 at 10:05 amexcuse me Blair is steeping down next year for gordon brown, Blair is getting a job at the Carlyle Group
Bush and Blair are both election cheats
we both need proportional representaion to have our votes count as in all other European countries
Blair took 355 of the vote last time BUT has a 60 seats more than half the house
Bloody cheats they are
May 29th, 2006 at 10:07 amshould read 35% of the vote but still has a majority of 60 seats in the house of commons
anybody with any maths sense can work out thats not right
they cheat by chopping counties up into bits,, as much as i hate the tories they actually got more votes in England than Labour
May 29th, 2006 at 10:10 amIf you want to know what’s been going on in WH, Congress, Pentagon, Iraq, vote for a Democrat. Give Democrats the power of subpoena. Let them enforce the Consitution. It’s our only hope. Give W another 2 years of this enabling Congress and there won’t be anything left of the Constitution to enforce.
May 29th, 2006 at 10:21 amSo if you can believe Truthout, the reason that we haven’t heard about Rove’s indictement could be that he is turning states evidence on Cheney. How I wish that was true.
May 29th, 2006 at 10:24 amMy question is here is what about Blair? How come there has not been any independant investigation into the Downing Street Memos? And if there has, why hasn’t he been drug through the coals for it? Surely he is due for his involvement in Invading Iraq.
CONDUCT OF GOVERNMENT POLICY IN RELATION TO THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ22.11.2005
Hogg, Douglas
That this House believes that there should be a select committee of seven honourable Members, being members of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, to review the way in which the responsibilities of Government were discharged in relation to Iraq and all matters relevant thereto, in the period leading up to military action in that country in March 2003 and in its aftermath.
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29437&SESSION=875
157 MPS so far
May 29th, 2006 at 10:44 amMy initial reaction to this was, WHY does he keep doing this? The explanation given by Tobey Tall in #9 makes more sense than anything I’ve heard, so far. Blair is simply weak, and has allowed himself to be bought.
May 29th, 2006 at 10:50 amHappy Memorial Day, if such a day can be celebrated happily. Here’s some good reading to start your day off right…
Bob Herbert asks in “Consider the Livingâ€, “Before you gather up the hot dogs and head out to the barbecue this afternoon, look in a mirror and ask yourself honestly if Iraq is something you would be willing to die for.â€
Paul Krugman, in “Swift boating the Planetâ€, keeps hammering away at global warming and its nay-sayers: “A brief segment in “An Inconvenient Truth” shows Senator Al Gore questioning James Hansen, a climatologist at NASA, during a 1989 hearing. But the movie doesn’t give you much context, or tell you what happened to Dr. Hansen later.
And that’s a story worth telling, for two reasons…â€
May 29th, 2006 at 11:00 am#20 – Two very powerful articles, thanks.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:11 amBlair is a little toady who should be stuffed and mounted by now. What are the Brits thinking? Tony’s coming to the States with his knee-pads on is a disgrace to British arrogance.
http://pissedoffcabbie.blogspot.com/2006/05/one-wave-short-of-shipwreck.html
May 29th, 2006 at 1:03 pmTony Blair is expected to join one of the most exclusive groups of businessmen in the world after he leaves Downing Street.
The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group – an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defense industry.
The firm has been nicknamed “The Ex-Presidents Club” because it has had a host of former world leaders on its books including George Bush Senior, his former secretary of state James Baker and former British PM John Major. There a also a large number of former US Army top brass.
Mr. Blair has been keeping quiet about his plans after his departure from Number 10 – which could be as early as 2007 according to some Labour insiders.
May 29th, 2006 at 1:14 pmWill Blair Be the Carlyle Group’s Poodle Boy?
(The Sunday Mirror) Tony Blair is expected to join one of the most exclusive groups of businessmen in the world after he leaves Downing Street.
The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group – an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defence industry.
The firm has been nicknamed “The Ex-Presidents Club” because it has had a host of former world leaders on its books including George Bush Senior, his former secretary of state James Baker and former British PM John Major. There a also a large number of former US Army top brass.
Mr Blair has been keeping quiet about his plans after his departure from Number 10 – which could be as early as 2007 according to some Labour insiders.
But sources in the City have revealed that he is “seriously considering” a high-profile role with Carlyle – which manages $30billion (£20million) of investments worldwide.
The job could net Mr Blair up to £500,000 a year for only a few days work a month giving speeches and making “networking” trips on behalf of the company.
http://democrats.com/node/5803
May 29th, 2006 at 1:16 pmCan’t afford to jeopardize that Carlyle Group directorship can you Tony? Just follow the money people… Carlyle Group: makes Al Capone look like a schoolyard bully.
May 29th, 2006 at 1:24 pmJust a tought: for who was working the Margaret Thatcher’s son when caught doing mercenary bussiness in Africa?
May 29th, 2006 at 1:44 pmno idea who Mark Thatcher was working for
But I do know he made £13 million on one arms deal to Saudi, thats where he earned his money ,
The Biggest problem is how Bush and Blair control the worlds media
May 29th, 2006 at 1:55 pmI blame the media more for the war and Bush/Blair second
I know it’s off-topic, but here’s my Memorial Day tribute. Let’s all keep in mind that the unthinkable alternative that the 2465 Americans who’ve died in Iraq is a luxury to those of us who haven’t lost a loved one in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 29th, 2006 at 2:27 pmoff topic
UK union approves Israeli boycott
Palestinian academics have welcomed a decision by a lecturers’ union in the United Kingdom to boycott Israeli academics and institutions that refuse to publicly condemn Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
shame America supports Isreal almost daily they kill Palestinians
May 29th, 2006 at 3:38 pmTobey Tall and all,
Let us not forget that Bill Clinton is also a part of the Carlyle group. That organization is very purple. There aren’t any republicans or democrats there. Only purple war mongers.
May 29th, 2006 at 4:06 pmAnother distinguished person states the obvious, the Big White Elephant in the mind of any thinking Republican: Bush and his Republican cronies are, well, er, kind of . . . the worst in history.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/9961300
May 29th, 2006 at 4:48 pmHey Spudgeboy. Got any link or information other than your word that Clinton works for the Carlyle Group?
I think yhour just blowing stuff out you ass, thinking it is your mouth, and that some of the blow will stick on the wall.
May 29th, 2006 at 6:59 pmOK-
Firedoglake
Daily KOs
Raw Story
HuffingtonPost
Wonkette
TalkingPointMemo
ALL had stories today!!!!!
HELLO!!!!! ANYONE HOME???????
Since when does freedom take a Holiday?
May 29th, 2006 at 8:17 pmA British paper reported what a few anonymous sources said. Must be true!
You guys are all suckers. Every. Single. Day.
That “right-wing” media again, riding all the way down smooth. Gulp, gulp.
May 29th, 2006 at 9:41 pmTony Blair the Prime Sinister
May 29th, 2006 at 11:35 pm