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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Sincerely,
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Sincerely yours
Tony Blair. "I only know what I believe." Sincerity has always been Tony Blair's first and last line of defence. When his back is against the wall, when the evidence of miscalculation or worse is incontrovertible, he will acknowledge common human fallibility with the British public school version of an "Aw, shucks" shrug. His Fern Britton interview? A self-deprecating smile and a little rehearsed joke about still some things to learn on the communication front. When Sir Lawrence Freedman asked if he believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Blair answered: "I did believe it. And I did believe it beyond doubt." He reiterated his belief in 45 minutes, that sanctions were not working, that a second UN Âresolution was possible, that war was legal, that Iraq posed a threat, shamelessly conflating 9/11, al-Qaida and Iraq. So much sincerity, so much belief. "His evidence has been that of a man who believed he was doing the right thing," BBC correspondent Nicholas Witchell said. We can all think of other leaders who have, in their time, believed they were doing the right thing – quite a few of them were monsters. The only point of what the elected leader of the country believed is whether it corresponded with the facts. Because when what we believe becomes what is true, the road is open to take any action that suits our purpose. Tony Blair had a purpose. For all his "third way" twaddle, he is an ideologue. The unspoken assumption that he and Bush had a right to wage a war in which thousands of civilians died went Âunchallenged by the baroness, the knights and mandarins who make up the inquiry. Nasser? Suez? Mosaddeq? The west can always find a way to justify its purpose. In office, Blair was notorious for his dislike of paying his own way. As he slips out of the side door to rejoin his hedge fund friends, the people whose countries he bombed will be picking up the tab for his sincerity for a long time to come. Ronan Bennett Screenwriter and novelist http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1723/1/
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Irfaan Kahan Veteran user 346 Posts |
I can fake it with the best of them - including Blair.
I'm a Magician playing the part of an Actor
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Davit Sicseek Inner circle 1818 Posts |
Blair perforumed well yesterday.
Shat I found much more distrubing was the crazed banners of the Socialst Worker party parading around outside, devoid of reasoned argument living in their own anti-western dreamworld. It's probably best I don't start on the parents.
Send me the truth: davitsicseek@gmail.com
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of the Socialist Labour party whose party faithful give a blast of The Red Flag at the end of their Bournemouth conference every year.
The people's flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyred dead, And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their hearts blood dyed its every fold
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
Talk trash about him, but I used to love watching him in parliment on the bbc over here. He could go on and on, and fire back-I love the system over there. I used to watch it in awe, thinking "bush would be getting his a** kicked"
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Yes they are very good advocates. Most of them are ex lawyers. I like going to Crown Court cases here and listening to the advocates argue their cases. Also its fun there watching the sincerity with which the witness's and defendants lie their heads off.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
Gilgamesh_The_Librarian Elite user 408 Posts |
Blair has always been a great performer but there is something very mannered and calculated about him that sets the hairs up on the back of my neck. I remember first being uneasy at his performance after Princess Diana's death and nothing he has ever said since rings the slightest bit sincere to me.
He got a darned easy ride off the Chilcot enquiry this week because he could outperform anyone in that room..a decent interviewer such as Peter Allen would have torn strips off him. Not saying that the Irag decision was ultimately wrong but I do think Blair did it for more egotistical reasons than anything else. His defining moment in history!!! |
Donal Chayce Inner circle 1770 Posts |
"Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
-George Burns |
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