Tony Blair

[KateLMead]

It gets more interesting my the minute.

[Aggers]

Suff - I have read through your exceedingly long post twice, and I must admit that,
like most of your writings, I find it most interesting. Far more interesting, in fact,
than many of the articles printed in the popular press, the editors of which, I feel,
would surely benefit if they had you on their payroll - and I'm not joking, believe me.

You have made me realise that I need to rethink my views on Mr Blair.

[Suff]

No newspaper would have me aggers, I write what I believe and I wouldn't write what they wanted if I disagreed with it. But thanks for the sentiment, it's doing my ego a bit of good. Needed as work is not going as well as I would like right now.

I hope I haven't made you think more kindly of him? I thoroughly despise the man. I wasn't taken in in 97 and by 2001 I would have voted for Ghengis Khan before voting for him. However I do believe he was totally bound by his own parties machinations since WWII and it was a real blow to his aspirations to power.

I have watched and observed his actions, both as reported in the UK press and reported in the world press, since he first came to power. I've noticed the difference between what was said and what was done. Power and influence in the world was denied in country but wielded very heavily and with skill outside of the country. The duplicity was there for all to see, they just needed to broaden their horizons in what they read.

I don't have any bitterness over the Iraq thing because I never trusted him in the first place and I never thought we needed to have a WMD issue to take the regime down, if we were really going to do that. There's a few other regimes out there which need removing too, but, apparently, we aren't the world police. So the rest of them get away with it whilst they don't have anything we want. Or at least they don't deny us what we want which is another kettle of fish altogether.

[KateLMead]

I agree with Aggers Suff yours and Franks letter are to the point and factual, and we can learn from everyone's contributions. However thinking kindly of Blair even attempting to excuse his stupidity, greed, self glorification, power at any price has shown him up for what he is, in my opinion unbalanced. I remember the peculiar time he decided to become a Catholic. I would think the confession box rocks! Never observed him showing interest in his change of faith.

[Suff]

However thinking kindly of Blair even attempting to excuse his stupidity, greed, self glorification, power at any price has shown him up for what he is, in my opinion unbalanced.

Dear me NO. I'd prefer to think him into an early grave and take his malice with him. But that's just me..

[KateLMead]

Hallelujah