Is Blair Off toJoin $30Bn World Elite? (*Carlyle Group*)

[Lori Price CLG]

Is Blair Off to Join $30Bn World Elite?
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/fullnewsbottom/tm_objectid=15880889&method=full&siteid=106694-name_page.html

Tony Blair is expected to join one of the most exclusive groups of businessmen in the world after he leaves Downing Street.

The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group - an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defence industry.

The firm has been nicknamed "The Ex-Presidents Club" because it has had a host of former world leaders on its books including George Bush Senior, his former secretary of state James Baker and former British PM John Major. There a also a large number of former US Army top brass.

Mr Blair has been keeping quiet about his plans after his departure from Number 10 - which could be as early as 2007 according to some Labour insiders.

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Lori Price

[Bhaisahab]

1. that's his pay-off for propping up neo-con lies

asshole. it seems to me he killed 50+ Londoners and thousands of iraqis for a billion dollars.
but lets not be too hard on him. any other polishitian would have done the same.

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Isn't it absolutely unbelievable? n/t

[Matilda]

3. That was my first thought too.

It all begins to make sense now.

[anakie]

9. I can see little johnnie

being offered something terribly similar when he finally decides to step aside.

[Matilda]

10. Yep. The number of dead is irrelevant.

Don't you just love the integrity of politicians?

[karynnj]

20. Who is little Johnnie?

[jody]

11. Absolutely right. n/t

[mom cat]

16. I hope he gets slammed for this! What a hypocritical jerk!

[calimary]

23. Hey, didn't we call this one? WAY back when?

That Blair was angling for the Carlyle Group, or that he was going to be promised a nice, cushy seat on their board of directors with all the perks and benefits and goodies that entailed? Didn't we call this one! (Answer: YES, OF COURSE WE DID. One of MANY predictable things about this bunch of criminals.)

[DeepModem Mom]

4. This has been speculated at DU a long time, but I feel ill...

seeing it possibly confirmed.

[i miss america]

25. Was there ever any doubt that Carlyle Group was his next stop?

Hell won't be hot enough for that bunch.

[Lori Price CLG]

37. Yeah, his 'job interview' consisted of making sure the 7/7 bombings...

went off without a hitch.

More info here:
Was a "Bomber" Superimposed onto Metropolitan Police Surveillance Camera Photo?
http://www.legitgov.org/cctv_image_of_uk_suspects_240705.html

Lori Price

[Maple]

5. Dunno if it's any elite

Canada has a former premier in there, now an ambassador, and he had no clout at all.

Tony could have done this years ago though, if he'd wanted to.

[jukes]

17. Maple

has to be kidding, right?

"tony" cd have donned a kilt & applied for membership in the Blackstone Rangers, too, but that's not what he did; he sucked up to the neocons & got his 30 pieces of silver for it.

[Maple]

26. No I just meant

that he's long since been elegible to join Carlyle. At the end of his first term if he wished to. It was discussed many times on DU. He didn't need to go into Iraq in order to 'qualify.' One of our premiers is a member, and didn't do anything outstanding to gain entry.

Why Tony went to Iraq is still a mystery.

[rman]

30. The more connections, the more usefull for Carlyle.

The longer one works in politics, the more connections one has.

It may be a mistery to you why Blair went along with Bush.

[Maple]

33. There has been lots of

speculation over Tony's motives, from the UK still owing money from WWII, to Bush having a 'compromising' photo of Blair. :7

We may never know why for sure, but a simple position at Carlyle doesn't seem likely enough bait, since that was in the bag anyway.

[Capt_Nemo]

6. Bump!

For the DU Blair apologists.

I've been saying it since 2002: Blair is a neo-con mole.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. anybody surprised

I mean that is where John Major went too

[Raster]

8. Like ANYONE should be surprised...

[oasis]

12. So much for "appearances".

[dchill]

13. This long-coveted position...

is THE reason Blair signed all those soon-to-die British troops up for the Iraq Attack. It was an offer he couldn't refuse.

[ngGale]

14. Is there any politician Carlyle or ...

defense contractor's can't buy off. This makes me sick, it's the same as selling our children dying in war for money. It's all about money.:mad:

[DemInDistress]

15. Blair's not alone in joining with a most corrupt Group

George W. Bush "a twig off the branch of the Bush Crime Family,he also is promised a seat on the board...Man,it pisses me off,ex president whose son in prez and works with Carlyle to plan wars for profit....

[jukes]

18. kick

kee YAH!

[UpInArms]

19. Bliar is a bloodsucking neocon leach parasite

without a shred of humanity.

I despise him and his unholy alliance with the BFEE.

History will not judge him kindly.

I hope that he gets everything he deserves.

[Lori Price CLG]

46. Note the Patriot Act 'renewal' passed w.in days of the 7/7 bombings...

As a result, Blair was rewarded for his loyalty to the Bush regime.

Lori Price

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. you know he is just like john majors did

[truebrit71]

22. Big fucking surprise there....

...What a gutless turd...

[glitch]

24. Enjoy your loot in HELL Tony. nt

[mopinko]

27. ah hah

the other shoe drops.
have they invited bill yet?

[Jacobin]

28. Ya know, I remember speculation on DU that this would happen

in exchange for his taking Britain to war in Iraq. At the time, I thought those posters were just crackpots....I mean, I mean, who in their right mind would suggest that a prime minister of Britain could be bribed by a huge salary and perqs to take his country to war?!?!

I mean, right? That's just crazy!!!


I humbly apologize to those who made that suggestion. They were prescient, they were skeptical, they were right, I was wrong.

[NNN0LHI]

32. Look at it this way. A seat on the Carlyle Group is comparable to the...

...72 Black-Eyed Virgins. Only better. Who could resist?

Don

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

39. It probably has those too

...though they're unlikely to be, technically, virgins.

[myrna minx]

29. Big surprise. We've thought this was inevitable for years.

"Purer than pure" sanctimonious Tony wins his award of 30 pieces of silver. Bravo, you bloodthirsty git. At least your precious children aren't fighting the nightmare you unleashed. :puke:

[NNN0LHI]

31. Always follow the money n/t

[stubtoe]

34. I wonder how the Britons will take this little tidbit.

I hope they raise holy hell over there and run Blair out of town on a rail. What a betrayal, it's absolutely mind-boggling.

[NNN0LHI]

35. Stoically n/t

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

40. Stiff upper lip?

[emcguffie]

36. When we get back in power --

-- this is a very important reform to be made. Jam the revolving door. Permanently.

We don't need any more politicians who want to be billionaires. So let's cut off the billions.

[ksilvas]

38. and that, my friends is how the world is run.

When people say that there are no secret rooms where powerful
men sit around and decide the fate of the world or at the
least it's general direction and the profit margins that lie therein.
There wrong.

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

41. What shocks me is that greed, not concern, drives their decisions

In theory, a bunch of ridiculously rich people deciding the fate of the Earth could do much good. Their wealth could insulate them from making self-serving decisions and drive them to instead care about, for example, the continued EXISTENCE of the planet and its ability to sustain life.

But wealth obviously doesn't give one foresight or free one from the clutches of greed.

People absurdly rich and scheming to control our planet care only about their own short-term self-interest because that's how they became absurdly rich and able to scheme to control our planet.

Dictatorships are seldom benign. Something about the corrupting power of absolute power.

[smoogatz]

42. Well, that certainly explains a lot.

Count me among the unsurprised.

[quiet.american]

43. I'm shocked to find this going on, shocked! -- not. n/t

[WhiteTara]

44. quite a scheme! what terrible excuses

for human beings. I'm surprised he isn't rushing up that time table, but maybe this is his initiation ritual to the club...take the heat for a couple more years and retire into the cushy world of shadowy deals with lots of money. May they all be damned to hell to rot for all eternity and may they all have nightmares during this life. :grr:

[leftofthedial]

45. that's the usual payoff for brit PMs

to get them to go along with the bushturdgang