Tony's Words,Deeds
Tony's Words,Deeds
14 May 2007
TONY Blair's decision to resign came as no surprise, and his speech last week outlined his achievements during his tenure while he apologised for his failures. What struck me most was when he said that his job was not the toughest one in the world; and that the more tough jobs were of the parents of disabled children and disabled people. The question is, how many people have been maimed in Iraq by the war that he fought along with Bush for the past four years? Does he have a count? Or, how many have been killed, and how many have been orphaned? All the same, I admire Blair's oratorial skills which helped him overcome the opposition many a time.
Ahsan ghori,Abudhabi
14 May 2007
TONY Blair's decision to resign came as no surprise, and his speech last week outlined his achievements during his tenure while he apologised for his failures. What struck me most was when he said that his job was not the toughest one in the world; and that the more tough jobs were of the parents of disabled children and disabled people. The question is, how many people have been maimed in Iraq by the war that he fought along with Bush for the past four years? Does he have a count? Or, how many have been killed, and how many have been orphaned? All the same, I admire Blair's oratorial skills which helped him overcome the opposition many a time.
Ahsan ghori,Abudhabi
posted by AHSAN GHORI @ 10:09 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
Ahsan Ghori is right about Blair's oratorial skills! We know now ofcourse, it seems ridiculous that it wasn't obvious at the start. But, such was his effortless skill as a dissembler, it was impossible to tell. When he first came to power, young, vigorous, intelligent, compassionate, it was actually possible to feel optimistic.
What a clever politician he is. When he drove Britain into war in Iraq against the will of the people he faced a tricky Party Conference. He responded with a superb brainstorming speech, appealing to the hearts of the delegates with his "Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world" and the need to end the misery in "slums of Gaza". It was a helluva performance, the delegates rose to applaud with a tear in the eye, he had fooled them all, and the killing in Iraq could go on.
There was, I believe, a seminal moment in his premiership, which came a few months earlier than that speech. He was in Japan, and on camera an aide came over and whispered in his ear that Dr David Kelly was dead. Blair physically blanched, he almost staggered, his face for a moment took on a haunted look. Dr Kelly, was the world's leading expert on the status of Saddam Hussein's WMD programme. He knew there were none, and had started to talk to journalists about it. He had to be silenced, so he was murdered, then his body dumped in the woods where he was later found.
If you find that hard to believe, look at the evidence given at the Hutton cover-up; I mean enquiry. Not the Hutton Report, which was half a gallon of finest British establishment whitewash, but the actual evidence given at the enquiry. At that moment in Japan, the last bit of his soul died. One doesn't have to be a 'wild conspiracy theorist' to recognise that. He was a hollow man. Driven by greed pure and simple.
Blair has step by pre-determined step dissolved the division between the political state and the corporate state entirely. The British two party system is now the American one party system and his task is done.
There isn't a corporate boardroom in the world that wouldn't be honoured to have his snout in their trough, following in the footsteps of Kissinger as the next generation of amoral robber barons.
-Debbie Menon, Dubai
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