What does Blair know?

Question

Considering that - according to a recent UK docu-drama - almost all of Blairs cabinet and advisors were advising against supporting America in Iraq, do you think he knows something that he can't even tell his closest advisors? Or is he simply insane?

Hitler was in power for 14 years - but he took advice from his advisors!

for xmortis

some amazing answers - i assume from religous nuts or kids - judjing by the poor grammar

Answer 1

It's a good question. Unfortunately you've got answers from people who have no political or current affairs knowledge.

Such as "Left to the conservative`s, people would still be working for 2 pound a hour."

If you're on 2 pound an hour, it's because you're dumb, not because of the Conservatives!!

Another saying Saddam "may have harboured WMD's, by the evidence available at the time"

The evidence existed because Blair created it!! Like the forged dodgy dossier, the faked Yellow Cake invoice, the manipulated images of trucks with balloon engines or the Iraqi convicted fraudster, paid 2 million dollars to lie?

To answer your question - yes, I think Blair does know something. I think Iraq was always meant to be the first step of a long plan, with radical objectives at the end. The 14 military bases in Iraq were strategic posts for the next plans.

I don't think Blair has much influence, but I think Britain does. I don't think people fully understand the US/UK relationship, but there's more than meets the eye.

I'll spare you the details, but for a starter, Google search the Federal Reserve and London.

Answer 2

Leadership requires tough decisions to be made all the time. The decision to go to war wasn't lightheartedly or taken as a vote winner (as time has proved) but rather a decision to remove a man whose acts of human rights violation were almost without equal. Also the fact that he may have harboured WM D's, by the evidence available at the time, was to much of a risk to sit back and ignore. Sadly a lot of lives have been lost both during the war and in the aftermath but what if nothing had been done? How many lives have been saved by the removal of Saddam Hussein? How much safer is the world with one less maniacal dictator? We're living in hard times and painful acts are needed. As for the dissenters in the party rank and file you'd need to ask them why they shrunk away from the decisions that were made. And as for the question of sanity, the only one with issues on that count is Saddam Hussein, I genuinely hope he can find forgiveness before his time is up.

Answer 3

Blair knows what side his bread is buttered, and he is aware of just how nasty life would be without America as our ally.

Its almost a two way street, we sold out our national sovereignty to reduce our war debt, which is rather ironic, sine the US wrote off France and Germany's war debt's whilst the UK continued to pay, I think we finally unloaded it in 1998. It cost us the computer, the jet engine, the gas turbine, television and lots of other patents - and the result is that we are now dependent on US military intelligence to keep on an equal footing with our other European Partners.

decades of poor government has removed any benefits from our former commonwealth, so we are on the edge of both Europe and North America.

France is not our Allies, they would love to get one politically over the UK, Germany is a bit more fairer minded, but in negotiations with the EU, we have to keep our special relationship with the US. Friendship with Washington allows us to keep control of the stock exchange in this time zone. The US gets back our help in staying our of the Euro- thus allowing the Dollar to prevent the Euro becoming the oil trading currency. We buy American missiles, and in return the us buy English electronics for their own aerospace.

the down side, is when you vote in a numskull like Bush, and he decides to finish his daddy's little war, we as your military allies have to show support.

When Harold Wilson refused to send troops to Vietnam, the US pulled out of the Pound, and it collapsed. 1967 - it took us 14 years to recover. A little political flack and a few body bags is easier to survive than a depresion.

Answer 4

Blair is Bush's poodle.

The man just can't say no to Bush.

Both Bush and Blair will go down in history as two leaders who missed an opportunity to bring peace in this world.

Answer 5

This country has flourished under Tony Blair,it would be a sorry state of affairs if conservative had remained,i remember the 80`s.

Left to the conservative`s,people would still be working for 2 pound a hour.

Answer 6

Because Blair wants to move to the States and be another Bill Clinton, and get lots of money making speeches. It's all part of a personal plan. He doesn't give a shi t about troops or Britain, its all about his own future.

Answer 7

I do believe your streching it a bit. Your way to far on the left. Let me get my hook and line out and reel you back to the center... Tony Blair is a GOOD MAN! Tony Blair is a JUST MAN! Tony Blair DOES WHATS RIGHT! Yeah, that's it now keep saying that, your almost there... Maybe you should get a Tony Blair poster and hang it in your living room...

Answer 8

Blair knows absolutely nothing!!! He only does things that he thinks makes him more popular on the International scene, who gives a rat's a*se what crap happens at home and who even really cares!!!!!!!

Answer 9

That man knows what he is doing, look how long he has been in power, and we don't have a rubbish country so he's done something right.

In my eyes, Blair is a good PM.

*I don't get what your added information is trying to tell me about my answer*

Answer 10

it does all seem so weird and as time goes along we hear snippets from people in positions of counselling and it makes you wonder if we are being led by a man who responsibility has made him ill in the manner as you have described and i cant help thinking with 60 million folk wanting him to vacate no10 he can be so defiant I'm sure the people of this country could force him to leave in a diplomatic way but his interest lie overseas when he should be here sorting this countries problems out He will get no thanks from those people in middle east