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R. S. Refugee
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 Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: The words of Gorgeous George. |
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These are Blair's last days
Iraq is our greatest foreign policy calamity in modern
history and the reckoning has only just begun
George Galloway
Tuesday May 3, 2005
The Guardian
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0503-27.htm |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Whatever the result on Thursday, these are the last days of Blair.
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What is this crap? I just looked at Reuters and:
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a MORI survey gave his Labour party a comfortable 10-point lead in the run-up to Thursday's election.
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So I didn't bother to finish the posted article.
I would be interested in hearing from the Brits on the board who yukked it up last Nov. when Bush won a close re-election. |
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R. S. Refugee
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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a MORI survey gave his Labour party a comfortable 10-point lead in the run-up to Thursday's election.
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So I didn't bother to finish the posted article.
I would be interested in hearing from the Brits on the board who yukked it up last Nov. when Bush won a close re-election. |
He didn't say that Bliar would lose the election. He said he is finished politically whether he wins or not. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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He didn't say that Bliar would lose the election. He said he is finished politically whether he wins or not.
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I know what he said. That's why I said it is crap.
I understand how Leonidas and the 300 Spartans' death at Thermopylae can be called a victory. What I don't get is how Blair's victory will be a defeat. It doesn't fit the model of a pyrrhic victory. |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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I know what he said. That's why I said it is crap.
I understand how Leonidas and the 300 Spartans' death at Thermopylae can be called a victory. What I don't get is how Blair's victory will be a defeat. It doesn't fit the model of a pyrrhic victory. |
Far be it from me to agree with that scumbag Galloway. But Blair is taking a battering from his party and Brown is clearly in the ascendency. Along with the fact that Blair has already said he won't seek a fourth term, I can't see him surviving long into any next term. He's starting to feel just as his heroine Thatcher did, post-poll tax.
If Labour's majority is significantly reduced, the party will tear into him. Interestingly, that's quite a reflection on just how governable he (and John Smith, now THERE was a brilliant politician) brought the party. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Blair's a bright guy. He's also a pretty good politician. My instincts tell me that predictions about his early demise are premature. But you never know. My instincts have been wrong before. I planted flowers on April 1st when the temperature was in the upper 70's. We've since had 5 frosts.  |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Whatever the result on Thursday, these are the last days of Blair.
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What is this crap? I just looked at Reuters and:
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a MORI survey gave his Labour party a comfortable 10-point lead in the run-up to Thursday's election.
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So I didn't bother to finish the posted article.
I would be interested in hearing from the Brits on the board who yukked it up last Nov. when Bush won a close re-election. |
As a voter concern, the Iraq issue ranks about 14th, after EU cod quotas. |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| Blair's a bright guy. He's also a pretty good politician. My instincts tell me that predictions about his early demise are premature. But you never know. My instincts have been wrong before. I planted flowers on April 1st when the temperature was in the upper 70's. We've since had 5 frosts. |
As I said, remember he has promised not to see re-election again. That means sometime in the next 4 years he'll stand down. All he's got left to do is seek his place in history, and watch as Brown tries to ensure he gets to be PM next.
Voters may not care about Iraq, Wangja, but the Labour party certainly does. They want rid of him. Remember, it wasn't the voters who did for Thatcher.
I expect him to be gone by the end of 2007. |
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rookieglobetrotter
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Just to think, Iraq was supposed to be a quick in and out job. We have spent almost a trillion dollars and continue 10$ billion a month to pay for this war and will not pull out for 3 more years.
Can you imagine if we could have saved that for the economic crisis we have now? |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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| George Galloway took money from Saddam Hussein. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| George Galloway took money from Saddam Hussein. |
Joo, you and I - and a few others - have already agreed that Galloway was a loathsome fellow. |
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