Letters to the Editor
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The price Tony?
You're living it...
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Hmmm.
It's great that hundreds of thousands of people have died for no reason that Tony can think of at the moment. Maybe it'll come to him later.
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Logic
If we never leave, then we will never be defeated, right? And we also save ourselves from the difficult task of figuring out what victory would mean.
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Idiotic
At the very least, Blair should be able to say what he THOUGHT victory meant when he first decided to go to war, shoulder to shoulder with Dubya. Then, and only then, could he credibly say he's uncertain what victory would actually mean NOW, given how events have transpired afterwards.
Without that, he would sound like a complete idiot. Which he does.
Is it too much to expect some sort of cost/benefit calculation from the "Leaders of the Free World"? Simply bleating that "I had the best of intentions, and used my best judgment" is hardly enough, and doesn't excuse massive blunders. Who would EVER admit that they DIDN'T have the best of intentions, or use their best judgment?
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He just doesn't give a sh*t anymore...
He's announced his resignation and is looking forward to (it is rumoured) receiving a £10 million fee from Murdoch for his memoirs (and, presumably, other services rendered...) together with all the other lucrative consultancies and directorships that ex Prime Ministers tend to collect. Hardly surprising he can't be bothered to come up with answers to the basic question of what our troops are actually doing out there (other than getting killed so Tony gets to hang out with Bush and pretend he's Churchill).
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Hey Tony...
...that dossier wasn't the only thing that was dodgy at No. 10...
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That's British for,
"Ask the next guy, I'm already gone."
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what "success" or "victory" in Iraq might be
Okay first of all, isn't it a little late to ask that question? Perhaps that question should have been asked befor "shock and awe"... but I digress.
Success and victory in Iraq is exactly this: Iraq and it's people love America, and they set up a government and a society that is modeled after America. Oh, and they sell America lots of oil at a discount, and allow American corporations to do business throughout Iraq. Success and victory in Iraq means fill it up with Macdonalds and Walmarts.
In other words, success and victory is a freaking pipe dream! Impossible. Never going to happen. Neocons were told this before the war started, and are still being told this now. They just don't want to listen. They think God will step in and make it all work out for them.
Iraq hates us. Period. Not going to change... not until WE change first. First step toward this change? get the hell out of their country.
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sad
Tony Blair graduated from Oxford. He is a smart man. I have seen him speak on many an occasion. He is an articulate man. It is sad to see him reduced to being a second-rate clone of Bush. It's weird that this tends to happen when you associate with him (the same fate befell Gonzalez, a smart, self-made man himself). The company you keep and all that.
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What an answer...
How can he recognize the cost of defeat and not that a "success" or "victory" is the same price? Perhaps thousands of lives lost diminish in the face of victory.
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What is the Price ?
Tim, you claim to know the price of what will happen if we stop fighting. You should share that answer. Neither the Pres. or Congress know that answer . Were you just being flip about matters of life and death or has God quit speaking to Bush and started conversing with you ?
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I'll get to the topic of Iraq...
...in the soon to be released book I'll be writing as soon as I leave. $29.95 to read how Bush forced me into supporting the invasion and occupation and how non of this was my fault.