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28 Aug 2006 03:32:39 PM |
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Bush: "Yo Blair! Fetch me some more pork rinds!" |
Carter Says Blair Subservient to Bush
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LONDON (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter accused Tony Blair on
Sunday of being "subservient" to the White House, saying the British
prime minister failed to constrain America on Iraq.
"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's
behavior," Carter said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph
newspaper.
"I think that more than any other person in the world, the prime
minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington - and he
has not," added Carter, who opposed the war in Iraq. "I really thought
that Tony Blair ... would be a constraint on President Bush's policy
toward Iraq."
Blair has been Bush's closest international ally on Iraq, and Britain
has the second most troops there after America.
Carter said in many countries he has visited, people equate U.S. and
British policy.
"It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British
prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant
and subservient," Carter said.
Blair committed Britain to the war even though public opinion was
strongly against it. He was re-elected last year - but with a sharply
reduced Parliamentary majority, and the war has damaged his credibility
among Britons.
Some speculated when the war began that Blair had decided to back Bush
publicly in order to maintain his behind-the-scenes influence on
Washington. But he has always denied suggestions that he committed to
the invasion of Iraq for any reason other than that he believed it was
the right thing to do.
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| Title: Re: Bush: "Yo Blair! Fetch me some more pork rinds!" |
29 Aug 2006 08:17:29 AM |
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wrote:
Carter Says Blair Subservient to Bush
It's really not strange that Blair - an internationalist, Fabian
communist (Labour), and strong promoter of world government - would
want to support a neocon globalist world government scheme.
I just can't stand that mincing, evasive, affectated voice of his.
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| User: "Gogarty" |
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| Title: Re: Bush: "Yo Blair! Fetch me some more pork rinds!" |
29 Aug 2006 11:29:01 AM |
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In article <1156857449.273450.47170@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
lorad474@cs.com says...
beachshark1@yahoo.com wrote:
Carter Says Blair Subservient to Bush
It's really not strange that Blair - an internationalist, Fabian
communist (Labour), and strong promoter of world government - would
want to support a neocon globalist world government scheme.
I just can't stand that mincing, evasive, affectated voice of his.
Well, no. That's just a hoity toity English accent. Have you checked the
Geico lizard lately?
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