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"I have no pity for Blair," the senior official commented, saying the prime minister had exhibited a weakness in dealing with the UN issue that had encouraged senior members of his party, such as Clare Short, to revolt.

Looks like our small band of Freepers was right. We have been pretty much told we didn't know what we were talking about by not jumping on the Blair is wonderful bandwagon. We suspected Blair had gone weak with the United Nations and thought he came on strong at the beginning never thinking that Pres Bush was really serious about disarming Saddam by force.

A lot of Freepers have been shocked at my stand on President Bush because I thought he was cowtowing too much to Blair and to Powell at the United Nations. I have enough military background to know that all the delay that people were saying to get our military in place was a basic farce as they could have been in place and ready sometime ago.

Pentagon has workarounds for every contingency you can name so Turkey not cooperating was not it.

The President tried to give Blair cover for his (Blair's) own political skin and Powell went nuts with diplomacy when he actually had the audacity to say the Inspectors were doing a good job last Sunday morning knowing full well that Blix had not reported the truth. Then we had the classic pictures of Bush calling all those 3rd world countries "begging" then to get on board the Blair resolution that he kept changing until it was so watered down it was a joke!

Being around the military, my loyalty is to them over any politician including a man I had supported since 1994. I believe that President Bush is back on track and it is time for Blair to either get on board or get out of the way. As I have said many times, Rumsfeld didn't make the remarks about the UK that some Freepers got so many about without clearing them.

I still support President Bush and expect from now on in he will be the President Bush I have supported who puts America first!

There's been a number of stories this morning from Britain about Blair getting the backing of Tories. He should be able to weather any storm (easily) at this point.

For many reasons, I don't think we're going to be hearing anything about going back to the U.N. tomorrow when the summit is over. And I suspect that by now Blair has gotten over the worst of the wobblies that hit him the past two weeks.

The Azores summit is the end, and I bet it's not quite so much the spur-of-the-moment thing it appears. And Blair will be there, feeling a little pinched maybe, wondering how it all ended up this way maybe, feeling like a fish out of water (surely), but he WILL BE THERE with the program. He can't leave the Azores any other way.