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<< [Blair is] still too fond of running to the U.N.; one can hope that Prez W. can help him see the error of that.
..... I would observe that Blair is a practical politician who may be rethinking the entire EU matter..... and he already opposes the new French federal EU constitution.
..... We'll know if he's really learned something when we see if he tries to insist bringing in the U.N. and the Weasels on Iraqi reconstruction. >>

Thoughtful response. We will indeed see.

And my money is that his lunatic-left-wing-fringer's lust for power [The noxious weed that florishes in the vacant lots of empty minds. Like Blair's] will overcome the temporary aberration that has been the cause of his out-of-"character" behavior during the past couple of years.

President Bush, having already, in order to accomodate Blair's gaggle of hats and left-winger's propensity and/or tendency to be all things to all forums [And notwithstanding that a large part of the first twelve months or so of delays were caused by the Cli'ton "administration's" armaments and other military derelections and depletions] stayed Our Nation's Hand way too often during the Post September 11 2001 Era, the last six months at the risk of disaster to America's and Australia's Military Forces -- and knows it.

It has been very refreshing to observe that since we invaded Iraqi -- and particularly at their most recent Camp David meeting -- America's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief made no bones of spurning all of Blair's usual manipulative importuning that his multi-hattedness [Especially insofar as his various British Labour Party/EU/UN/NATO slights of hand and other shuckin' and jivin' are concerned] be further accommodated.

Blair now has three choices. He may quit politics and get a job. He may quit the Labour Party and begin the long climb up the Tories ladder -- and maybe ever make it past back-bencher.

Or he may continue to be the kind of Labour Party creature whose career depends upon his ongoing willingness to continue to lie to those to stupid to know they are being lied to and/or are to lazy and greedy to care. Doing that will warm his Hitlery-Clinton-esque Marxist wife's cockles and will offer him some kind of ongoing political continuity while he simultaneously plays different versions of socialism's three card monte and simultaneously "guarantees" different outcomes to different audiences in every EUROpeon circus tent.

As I already said, my money [But not my prayers] is on his subduing the aberration that has steered his past few months' behavior, reverting to type -- and doing the latter.

Best ones -- Brian