[Argus]

Our recent love fest with Mr. Blair has been nice, but I fear it's drawing to an end as he resumes pandering to the socialist bureaucrats in Brussels and at the UN.

[Terpfen]

IMO, this isn't catering to the UN or EU: it's catering to UK domestic opinion in the face of a severe split within his party. If Blair can establish himself as being someone who can maintain strong ties with America without appearing to his country like Bush is tugging his strings, those people in the Labor Party who revolted will have a harder time throwing Blair out of the PM office this coming October.

Besides, this roadmap ain't going to work anyway, and I think Blair knows it. The Israeli-Palestinian stuf is used for cheap political pops almost everywhere else, and Blair is still a liberal.

[PhiKapMom]

You mean like some folks on here are going to get a dose of reality about the real Mr. Blair who just happened to be backed in a corner and ended up having to support the war.

The same Mr. Blair that doesn't seem to like Israel very well.

The same Mr. Blair that mostly likely thought President Bush was another Clinton type President -- fire off a few Cruise and Tomahawk missiles but not actually launch an attack. You know -- saber rattle but don't do anything else.

The same Mr. Blair that waffled big time when the 2nd resolution was doomed from the start and he kept trying to add words, take away words, and finally came up with the stupid benchmarks that read like Bill Clinton had written them.

Same Mr. Blair that got President Bush to announce the Middle East plan. It was not the time to be bringing it up -- right before we launched and when we had all the trouble at the UN. It sure wasn't fair to Israel. I could care less about the Palestinians!