Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World

[SillyGoose]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-world-forum-blair,0,5659686,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

January 26, 2005, 1:42 PM EST

DAVOS, Switzerland -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on the United States Wednesday to take the world's needs into account when it seeks global support for its actions, and cited climate change as an issue all nations must address together.

"If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too," Blair told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

Blair pledged to help developing countries reduce pollution and build more environmentally friendly economies.

Blair called for a common agenda worldwide, at the top of which would be cooperation in the fight against terrorism. He also urged that the world's countries protect human rights and freedom and "when we can, seek to increase the number of people able to live in democracy."

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[Dawgs]

1. Interesting...

Is Blair moving away from Bush as well?

[Damien]

4. we are alone

if he does. He's been Bush's only defender in the world.

Good for England.

[Kimber Scott]

2. I wonder if global warming wouldn't kill more people than OBL? nt

[VegasWolf]

3. That's not how the conservatives view it. n/t

[tridim]

5. Blair is delusional

He's already been used and shat out by BushCo. He should be careful what he says now that Bush has been coronated King of The World.

[ally_sc]

9. it is interesting..

he is a plastic knome. why doesn't he take any initiative.

[YDogg]

6. A day late ...

... and a pound short.

[sniffa]

7. shut up commie!

bLair actuaLLy Loves the french, y'know. :P

[salin]

8. We know bush is at home (press confrence)... WHO was sent

to the World Economic Forum to represent the US? Isn't it common for the nation's "leader" to attend? I haven't read a peep about any US official in attendance. Is this normal?

[VegasWolf]

10. Why does Blair hate America? n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. No sir, the US is on a mission to promote "freedom"

and according to the chimp, that means giving every person the right to stand on the street corner and speak out, or something like that, I'm actually still confused about what he was trying to say.

[sweetheart]

12. blair neocon

How tiresome that he's changed his rhetoric 2 millimeters but pounds
on about terrorism, rather than poverty and disease.

Fear blair fear fear blair.... asshole. He's trying to show some
distance whilst not being substantive, so he can re-win his own
relection... and it clearly is not substantive. Shut up about terrorism
already, you and bush have killed enough civilians with your terrorism
and you've not spread one iota of democracy. LIAR.

[htuttle]

13. They used to say that about 'Red China'

"China needs to integrate with the world."

Now they say it about us...

[oneighty]

14. How can he do that?

Perhaps he learned of the possible demise of the Gulf Stream.

180

[NYC Liberal]

15. Uh oh. Looks like Blair needs one of those electric collars.

[truebrit71]

16. Tony, thy name is whore....

You sold out your countrymen to an imbecile from Connecticut masquerading as a cowboy. You tried to sell them fear, fear and more fear...but Tony they are smarter then you...they know who you are, and to whom you report...and this pre-election tough-talking act is as transparent as your concern for human rights and freedom...

This spring we may not get rid of you, but it will be a neutered and useless poodle that limps back to the Palace of Westminster...and that can only bode well for the citizens of the British Isles.

[kskiska]

17. Dream on, Tony,

dream on. Never gonna happen.

[Dead_Parrot]

18. Bad poodle!

No biscuit!

[ananda]

19. deep freeze a comin?

"Perhaps he learned of the possible demise of the Gulf Stream."

That means a new ice age and a long, deep freeze for the UK...

Sue

[Bragi]

20. Tony need to get re-elected

Maybe the White House has given him a free speak-out card so he can get re-elected (which sadly, due to lack of alternatives, he will be.)

- B