Blair's secret war meetings with Clinton

Guardian Unlimited ^ | April 25, 2003 | Patrick Wintour

[mabelkitty]

Please expand on that. It's nutty.

[mabelkitty]

And is there a reason he wouldn't have done something much more politically smart like ask somebody from his own party?

[mabelkitty]

Can somebody tell me if any American citizen can file charges of Treason against a former President?

I mean if Ramsey Clark can file papers for Bush impeachment, why can't I go after the Southern Bubbas?

[mabelkitty]

Bush knowing and Bush approving are two different things.

I highly doubt he gave his blessing for Clinton to undermine him.

[PhiKapMom]

The picture of Blair asking Margaret Thatcher for advice made me laugh! You are so right! Bet she would be the absolute last person to ask advice from!

[PhiKapMom]

His actions are all for self-preservation, or course, but what did he do? What is he afraid we will find?

That thought crossed my mind as well on the Clintons and also DNC. Just where is their money coming from. You bring up an excellent point about the Food for Oil program and how so much American money ended up in Iraq.

Have always felt that in the end, we were going to uncover a lot of corruption on the part of the people squealing the loudest that we should not liberate the Iraqi people from the Saddam regime. The anti-War rhetoric from people like Clinton and others went wave over the top IMHO.

Now we have Korea on the horizon -- wonder what Clinton is going to say now that he wanted us to focus on N. Korea. Believe he is dirty there as well.

Thanks for your kind comments!

[philosofy123]

You guys keep forgetting that Tony Blair is a socialist, leftwinger. He and Bush have little in common except they both hate hate the French!

[Mr. Bird]

There is a difference between an ally undermining you and an adversary. Sadly, Clinton has proven to be no ally of Bush even when U.S. interests are at stake. Clinton, blowhard that he is, staked his claim to a failed idea. I would not be surprised if Bush "allowed" this to happen. He could easily have directly (and discreetly) appealed to Clinton to keep his trap shut, and Clinton probably would have demurred.

[kevao]

Tony Blair took repeated secret advice from the former American president Bill Clinton on how to unlock the diplomatic impasse between Europe and the US

In other words, Clinton was responsible for the diplomatic debacle in the run-up to the war. And here we thought he was such a gifted politician.

[daviddennis]

He's head of the Labour Party, which is roughly equivalent to the Democrats in the US. The Labour Party had been out of power for quite some time - at least a decade if my memory serves - so people in his own party would not have up to date information about foreign policy.

So naturally he turned to Clinton, his ideological equivalent, for advice.

It's easy to forget that Tony Blair is similar to our Democrats. He just discovered it's not that popular to act like one, so he has been trying to reform his party into something more centrist. (The Labour Party was known as a major repository for the "looney left" for some years, and there is still more than a little bit of that today).

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[techcor]

Now that the polls show how much the Brits like Blair standing up and being a man and a leader, he will probably never listen to Clinton again.

[longtermmemmory]

Is this confired from Blair? If not then I say this is more democrat party attempts to paint the victory as defeat. The left needs to reclaim the blair/clinton (both) Third Way to socialism agenda. Blair is a victim of his own success. The english people do not want to adopt the german mark as their currency. Ooops the Euro, they changed the pretty pictures.

There is a pattern here. Every leftis media is in a feeding frenzy to try and find SOME story, ANY story to divide the conservatives/republicants from feeling good. The are endevoring to foster distrust.

Please, clinton almost had bin laden, clinton almost had somalia, clinton almost had saddam, clinton almost fixed the military and NOW clinton almost had the second UN resolution. ARE ALL THESE REPORTERS SO BLIND!!!! No they are not, they just had Bush enough to help the liar.

[timestax]

You guys keep forgetting that Tony Blair is a socialist, leftwinger. He and Bush have little in common except they both hate hate the French! 47 posted on 04/25/2003 8:06 AM PDT by philosofy123 [

I have not forgotten.

[BonnieJ]

I knew that he would try to take all the credit...IF the war worked out well. He trashed it, was silent, then suddenly it's all about him. Bill Clinton to the rescue, he is the one who got the whole thing rolling. Like we will believe that. But it will be among the Dem's main talking points for the next 2 weeks or more. "Bill Clinton's military and Bill Clinton's strategy and diplomacy won the war".