Posted 2:15 AM by Paul
Starstruck

He was simpering. I definitely saw him simpering. Bush called said Tony was "what we back in Crawford we call a stand up kind of guy" A nation reached for the barf bag. Blair's lack of dignity and willingness to be publicly humilated (he doesn't see it like this obviously) confuses millions of British pople. We love America but that doesn't mean that we want to have their babies.

When I was in New York this summer Steve Corrigan and Neil Kaplan described Blair as "star struck" and said. " They have suckered him in. He will get medals and speeches but no real concessions." Everthing these two educated and hard nosed Yankees has been shown to be true. So why does Blair do it?

I think Blair is bored by trying to mend the railways and make the NHS work. Domestic policy is boring. He sees himself as a man of destiny and you can't be a statesman if you don't have a world stage to strut on. The Bush White House provides that by proxy. Blair has so boxed himself in with his cod-Churchillian rhetoric that he has nowhere else to go. He has no room to manouevre. He dreams of himself as the man who guided Europe back to a reproachment with the USA and away from the post war Social / Christian Democratic settlement. He sees the American Way as the model. Perhaps as a kid in boarding at a grim public school Blair dreamed of living in God's Own Country

Chirac, Shroeder and now Manzanares stay close to the original conception of the EU as a counter weight to the USA. In reality this role is now more important because the other reason for the EU, a block to the Soviet Union, is now defunct.

And now Blair says that he wants a new UN resoltuion to give the organisation a bigger role in the "New Iraq". Apparently it was always going to be like this. Planned from the start by the Great Archiects of the New World Order. This scam would make me laugh if it wasn't so serious. Last year the UN was condemned as an "irrelevance" for not supporting the war. Now they want them in. It's very simple. Bush needs someone else to pick up the bills and do the dying in the run up to an election.