Reply #3: I'd beware of this kind of tale. It looks suspiciously like an effort to rehabilitate [View All]

Tony Blair.

Bear in mind that ballons have been floated as to a Blair candidacy for EU president. But the Iraq War is so unpopular in most of Europe--Bush/Blair really put many Europeans in great danger from it (they are a lot closer to Iraq and the Middle East than we are)--that his reputation needs major cosmetic work. This is how it's done--by this kind of unsoliticed disclosure. If Bush and Cheney were normal politicians, and not fascist tyrants, we might be hearing the same sort of disclosures to rehabilitate them, for future positions. ("It was all Rummy's fault, really.") But they care not a fuck about public opinion. They are puremongers, and, if they want something, will just take it--buy it, take it over, "arrange" it through their gang of corporate predators and financial criminals, hit squads and thugs. The EU countries, though, are more--much more--democratic than the U.S. is, and will need some convincing, or at least smoothing of Blair's Iraq War edges. This fits the bill. He was sparing Afhganistan a nuke holocaust. I'd guess it's utter bullshit.