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Another Tube strike announced
"Mizter T" wrote in message
On Jun 4, 10:21 am, Tony Polson wrote: Mizter T wrote: And then there was the illegal war(s). Blair cynically looked at them from a party political point of view, and realised that he would be toast with some of New Labour's new Middle England voters if he opposed the war(s). So he wrong-footed the Conservatives and joined up with some of the most repugnant war criminals that have enjoyed power since 1945 - Cheney, Rumsfeld and their idiot stooge, Bush, all for domestic party political gain. I disagree - I really don't think Blair approached Iraq from a party political standpoint at all. I think he essentially agreed to back Bush, and then justified it to himself and others by focussing on the evilness of Saddam Hussein's regime coupled with the somewhat forlorn hope that the new Iraq could be a beacon to the rest of the Middle East (and to an extent the wider world), plus a few other ideas (e.g. felling a 'rogue state' would demonstrate to others that they should be good). I don't think either Afghanistan or Kosovo/Serbia were approached from a party political angle either (and I would also demur with you in labelling them as "illegal wars" but that's moving onto new territory). Blair had got the UK into several other small wars, from which the outcomes were largely successful, so he probably had become over-confident. He also probably remembered what the Falklands and first Gulf wars did for the re-election prospects of the PMs of the day. |
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