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I've not been a Tony Blair fan before the last 18 months or so. I don't think we would agree on a lot of things, otherwise. However, I commend him on his stand on the War on Terror.

Tony Blair has taken BIG heat in the UK for his staunch support of the U.S. in the War on Terror, especially on the latest rounds regarding the imminent Iraq War. He has remained resolute against the greatest political pressure imaginable. Even some in his own group have criticized him. His leadership in the Imminent Iraq War is to be lauded as a principled stand, imho . . .

Tony Blair: The price of my conviction

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But there are also consequences of 'stop the war'. There will be no march for the victims of Saddam, no protests about the thousands of children that die needlessly every year under his rule, no righteous anger over the torture chambers which if he is left in power, will remain in being.
I rejoice that we live in a country where peaceful protest is a natural part of our democratic process. But I ask the marchers to understand this.
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
If there are 500,000 on the [Stop the War] march, that is still less than the number of people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for. If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars he started.
So if the result of peace is Saddam staying in power, not disarmed, then I tell you there are consequences paid in blood for that decision too. But these victims will never be seen, never feature on our TV screens or inspire millions to take to the streets. But they will exist none the less.

President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of England walk out to address the media in Cross Hall at the White House Nov. 7. "We've got no better friend in the world than Great Britain," said the President during his remarks. White House photo by Paul Morse.

Churchill's speech of yesteryear?

You and I and few others -- I observe and am pleased and proud to say -- seem to operate from the same core beliefs and fundamental honesty and are in agreement on pretty much all of the issues that matter.

But, while I will agree that Blair has -- in the context of his relationship with Our Beloved FRaternal Republic and with President Bush -- appeared to be saying all of the "right" things, it has been clear also that he has been saying other "right" things to the many "wrong" and Evil groups with whom he is more at home -- and with whom he "needs" KKKli'ton-like, to retain his "political viability."

These include but are not limited to: the UN; the EU, the British Labour Party and even the Sin Fein/IRA. [Whose bank-robbing and drug and gun-running mass-murderers Blair still cravenly and shamelessly appeases]

And -- at the potential cost of the lives of more brave Americans, Australians, [Who already, with their New Zealand/ANZAC comrades, know a little about the mortal danger of having the bloody British at their rear!] Israelis and Iraqis than I would care to predict -- when it came right down to the crunch the Clinton-cloned Blair's devious duplicity has come home to rest and he has proved his own and the British Nation's real, 2003, worth. Just as, more than one year ago, I predicted that he and it would.

Best ones -- Brian