Tony Blair says Europe and America will face a moment of reckoning after the war and he warned of the danger for the world if they fail to heal the wounds inflicted by the crisis.

The Prime Minister said relations between the US and Europe would form a "significant part" of his talks with George Bush at the President's Camp David retreat tonight and tomorrow.

The two leaders will discuss the war but Mr Blair insisted the meeting was not a response to setbacks and had been planned for some time. The President and Prime Minister will also discuss the relief effort, how post-war Iraq will be rebuilt and governed and the Middle East peace process. Mr Blair will try to smooth over differences with the US, which is cautious about the United Nations playing a major role in Iraq. To underline his support for the UN, he will meet Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, in New York tomorrow. Despite the UN's failure to agree on disarming Iraq, Mr Blair expressed confidence yesterday that the world would agree on UN resolutions on the relief programme and the running of post-war Iraq.

At a press conference in Downing Street, Mr Blair did not disguise the "real tensions" between Europe and America exposed by the Iraq crisis. "There is at the end of this going to have to be a discussion and indeed a reckoning about the relations between America and Europe."

In a reference to France's desire to see Europe become an alternative power base to the US, Mr Blair said: "We have got to find a way afterwards of putting this back together on a sound basis because the alternative is this concept of rival poles of power in the world. That is a profoundly dangerous concept. It is not something that is in the interests of Europe or America."

He said most people would regard the idea of sacrificing the transatlantic alliance as "madness – because it would be absolute madness". He played down signals from Washington that the Bush administration will not give the UN a central role in Iraq, saying he spoke to President Bush every day about such issues and the US did not want "to pursue a unilateralist path without care for the rest of the world".

The Prime Minister said the war strategy was "unfolding exactly according to plan" and had achieved "a huge amount". He said: "Of course there will be accidents and tragedies and things will happen along the way. War is always like that."

Regular Iraqi forces had largely "melted away", while elements most loyal to Saddam had put up stiff resistance.

THE CRIMINALS AT THE UN
& THE AXIS OF WEASELS

The criminals are getting desperate. The criminals who had sweet deals with Saddam, selling him weapons and all kinds of nasty stuff in exchange for oil. France, Germany, Russia, China, and the UN. Saddam's partners in crime. His aiders and abettors. His co-conspirators. They are demanding that the US and UK step aside after the war in Iraq and let them take over. They are trying desperately to keep the truth of their corruption and wickedness from being revealed. This cannot be permitted. Let the truth be known! Let the world see them for what they are -- Saddam's Whores!

There is no way in hell that Bush can allow Annan, Chirac, or any of the other criminals who made dirty deals with Saddam, to have anything to do with post-war Iraq. All they want to do is cover everything up. All they want to do is get their hands on the WMD, hide their complicity, and then pass the WMD on to terrorists. They cannot be trusted. They cannot be allowed to take possession of the WMD. This cannot be stressed more strongly. The depth of their corruption knows no bounds, and they cannot be permitted to pervert and destroy everything we and our coalition are accomplishing in Iraq with our blood.

Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, and all the others who stood against the United States and Great Britain in the righteous cause of eliminating Saddam Hussein's evil and barbaric regime and liberating the people of Iraq, must not be allowed to have any participation in post-war Iraq. Their crimes must end with the fall of the regime. The coalition of the willing is disarming Iraq, and only the coalition of the willing must be responsible for what is done in post-war Iraq.

France, Germany, Russia, China,
and the UN=Saddam's Whores

Enough is enough. These criminals prohibited us from ridding the earth of Hussein back in 1991. And for the past twelve years, they have propped him up.

They sold him weapons and they sold him equipment.

They violated their own sanctions, and they smuggled contraband disguised as humanitarian aid.

They concocted the fiction of inspections not to disarm Hussein, but to give him cover and run interference for him while he turned his nation into a poison factory.

They NEVER had any intention of disarming him, and EVERY intention of using him as a proxy to wage war against the United States and Israel.

They signed on to Resolution 1441 never intending to actually enforce it, and when President George W. Bush forced their hand, they declared themselves as the bonafide enemies that they are. And now that the coalition of the willing led by President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing the job that they refused to do, they are issuing threats and making demands. They insist that we wash our hands of the matter so, like the jackals they are, they can sink their teeth into the newly liberated Iraq not to help it in any way, but to cover their tracks, hide evidence of their crimes, take possession of the WMD, and distribute it to whomever they will.

This cannot stand. This cannot be allowed. The United Nations and the Axis of Weasels, who refused to fulfill their duty to humanity, have abrogated all rights to the future of liberated Iraq. They refused to do the heavy lifting, so they cannot be permitted to perpetrate this fraud. They have absolutely no right to what they claim. They had their chance, and they chose to slink away rather than lead. They cannot be allowed to slink their way back.

The United States of America and Great Britain have accepted the responsibilities of liberating Iraq and protecting the world from weapons of mass destruction, and they must not relinquish these responsibilities. Least of all to those who by their actions have revealed themselves to be unworthy of trust and unable to accept a position of leadership in this world. For their treachery, the traitor UN and the traitor nations must be rewarded with irrelevancy, for that is what they deserve.

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THE CRIMINALS AT THE UN& THE AXIS OF WEASELS