Politics is very hard to have a friendship in 
Tony Blair
Posted on 03/03/2006 1:17:56 PM PST by RWR8189
Prime Minister Tony Blair says he prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops to Iraq.
Mr Blair answered "yes" when asked on ITV1 chat show Parkinson if he had sought holy intervention on the issue.
"Of course, you struggle with your own conscience about it... and its one of these situations that, I suppose, very few people ever find themselves in."
The interview, Michael Parkinson's first on his chat show with a serving PM, will be shown on Saturday.
"In the end, there is a judgement that, I think if you have faith about these things, you realise that judgement is made by other people... and if you believe in God, it's made by God as well," Mr Blair said.
"When you're faced with a decision like that, some of those decisions have been very, very difficult, most of all because you know these are people's lives and, in some case, their deaths.
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Politics is very hard to have a friendship in Tony Blair
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"The only way you can take a decision like that is to do the right thing according to your conscience."
On the show, Mr Blair also talks about his most embarrassing prime ministerial moment.
When giving a press conference in France, he was asked if there were any French policies he would like to imitate.
Mr Blair, trying to answer in French, replied: "I desire your prime minister in many different positions."
Avoiding answers
Asked if he would serve a full term as Prime Minister, he said he was "getting on" with a busy programme and it had to be judged according to the work he had to do, rather than the time.
"If I sound embarrassed answering these questions it's because I've spent so long trying to avoid answering them," he said.
He was also asked about his relationship with Gordon Brown.
Parkinson said: "The trouble is, Prime Minister, you keep saying, 'Gordon and I are good pals' but no-one believes you." Mr Blair answered: "Yeah, but politics is very hard to have a friendship in...
"There is only one top job and it's not an ignoble ambition to want it, so there's all those difficulties there.
Cannabis incident
"People have written that we are about to fall out drastically and go for each other for years and years and years, and whatever the difficulties it's still a good partnership and one I'm very proud of.
"I'm proud to call him a friend and I always will be."
Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Blair recalled Labour's 1997 election victory. "People used to like me then," he said.
Mr Blair also talks about the first time his father-in-law actor Tony Booth - an old friend of Parkinson - visited his and wife Cherie's home after they were married.
Mr Booth had asked if he could light a cannabis joint, Mr Blair said.
"I was thinking this is my father-in-law, surely this should be the other way around.
"I said no, incidentally."
<< Some of Great Britain's elected officials make our worse congress creatures seem like choir boys.
However, they are revered by their media. >>
Yep.
Cherie Booth and Tony Blair and their issue free-load vacation on Egyptian-dictator, Mubarak's, looted Dime and even such more-blantant in-your-face moral 'equivalent-ists' and anti-semite Arabists as Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw and as Galloway and Livingstone and the far-more insidious Christopher 'Hong Kong' Patten have legions of lewd, loud and lascivious lickspittles lapping up their every lie.
And the poor Brits are such pathological antisemites and organic arabists as to suffer a form of derangement similar to the Bush Derangement Syndrome,* suffered here by "Democrats" and their lumpen base - and that causes them to glom to any grotesque and ghastly gargoyle who throws enough innocent Israelis and anywhere Jews to islamfascism's lion.
*Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush.
Charles Krauthammer - December 5 2003
Come now,
even Winston Churchill once famously tried to address his audience in French. It was so bad, no-one could understand what he was saying.
After silently watching the foul mouthed, uneducated dribble that so endlessly squirts from you, I have to finally come in at this juncture and say that you sir, are the most obnoxious, poorly educated little xenophobic anti British pillock, I have ever had the misfortune to read posts from.
I don't know what British person slighted you in order for you to become so rabidly addicted to verbal Diarrhea, but I for one am sick of seeing it.
I doubt very much you've even been to my country, but if you haven't, don't bother. As I'm sure within thirty seconds of opening your vile mouth someone would have quite happily filled it with a fist.
Regards, you insipid little freak
Anglo
I'm sorry but apart from epitomizing, exemplifying and making my oft-asserted point as to the depths of epidemically-alcoholic bovver-booted brutish degeneracy to which once great Britain has descended, you seem to have missed making any reconizable point of your own.
Are you perchance Fullham's former Brussels-based pornographer, the mad "russian," in mufti?
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