Blair 'prayed to God' over Iraq

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Prime Minister Tony Blair says he prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops to Iraq.

Mr Blair answered "yes" when asked on ITV1 chat show Parkinson if he had sought holy intervention on the issue.

"Of course, you struggle with your own conscience about it... and its one of these situations that, I suppose, very few people ever find themselves in."

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"In the end, there is a judgement that, I think if you have faith about these things, you realise that judgement is made by other people... and if you believe in God, it's made by God as well," Mr Blair said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4772142.stm

Are there no depths of blasphemy to which this loathsome hypocrite will not stoop ?

[Nomen Tuum]

1. Sure he did...

...SARCASM MODE NOW OFF...

[Connie_Corleone]

2. He prayed to God and the Devil answered.

Or he was talking to himself.

[sabra]

3. so he prayed to Bush?

:puke:

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Oh please

get me a barf bag.

:puke:

Dear Tony,

That voice inside your little tiny head is not god.

God.

[Montauk6]

5. Is that "prayed" or "preyed"?

[sui generis]

6. great. a faith based invasion.

[brainshrub]

7. It must have been the Homer Simpson prayer:

"...I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done."

[LisaM]

8. I don't agree with this, but it's less inapprorpriate for Blair than *

as Britain actually does have a state church. But I still don't think it's right.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. Blair: "if you believe in God, it's made by God as well,"

Dear Tony,

I believe in God too and I asked him about you and he told me you were a lying, murdering punk.

Sincerely,

MMA.

p.s. I don't think hell will want you either because you're a servile poodle and will ruin their image.

[Babel_17]

15. Thumbs up

I was thinking along similar lines, you said it perfectly.

[Mandate My Ass]

18. GMTA

the first part was all God, the poodle part was me editorializing a bit.:evilgrin:

Welcome! :hi:

[tiptoe]

10. So. he was just following orders of his/everyone's Superior?

[Mend]

11. and God said, "kill, bomb, burn, and torture. Destroy

as many men, women and children as you can". Thus sayeth God to Tony Blair.

[wookie294]

12. He prayed for a position on the Carlyle Group's board when he retires n/t

[onehandle]

13. Witness! I saw him praying on his knees.....

....His mouth pressed deep into Bush's zipper.

Good, poodle. Good, poodle.

[mom cat]

17. I bet the fool burned the shirt he was wearing at the time.

[Cerebral_Assassin]

14. ah, memories.

Reminds me of a story about the segregationist governor of Georgia, Lester Maddox.

Someone came up to him and handed him a fat check and said, "The Lord told me to give that to you."

Maddox, suspecting that the guy would later be asking for a favor in return for the generous gift replied, "The same Lord told me not to take it."

[htuttle]

16. And God replied:

"Don’t ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to..."

Oh well. :shrug:

[Solly Mack]

19. It's a God-a-thon!

Bush/Blair: they talk to God and God says "Kill'em all, I'll sort them out"

LMAO

[Benbow]

20. Won't work, Tony - God doesn't like liars, I am sure of it n/t

[VegasWolf]

21. If god had actually existed he would have told Blair to run from Bush.

[oblivious]

22. And God replied: "Mass murderers burn in hell, little man."

[MisterP]

23. by which he means Bush, of course

[genie_weenie]

24. Tony prayed to the Anglican God

and Chimpy prayed to Halliburton.

Halliburton is a much more demanding God! He's gotten 2300 American scarifies and 40,000 Iraqi while the Anglican God has only gotten 100 British although I'm unsure of the Iraqi sacrifices...

[daleo]

25. He prayed to God

And God said: Kill, kill, kill.

[twaddler01]

26. Him and Bush have lots in common n/t

[salin]

27. prayers asking for a specific answer

or result are often accompanied by closed ears by the one praying (eg they will only "hear" one answer) and it is arrogant to suggest that then it is/was the will of God.

[old blue]

28. ok, well, time to get a better god then n/t

[Critters2]

29. And God replied

"bomb the bejeezus out of 'em"?....hmmm...different God than I'm familiar with.

[VegasWolf]

30. So did bush. They need a god that is correct more often. nt

[BillZBubb]

31. "And we murdered 100,000..."

"...WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE!"

Doesn't that make it better?

[Endangered Specie]

32. You'd think European leaders would have learned THAT particular lesson

by now...

[IndianaGreen]

33. And what did the Almighty had to say to Tony "The Poodle"?

On the other hand, Blair was probably more correct when he recollected the following:

Mr Blair, trying to answer in French, replied: "I desire your prime minister in many different positions."

and then, there is Blair's "eureka" moment:

Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Blair recalled Labour's 1997 election victory. "People used to like me then," he said.

Our beloved planet, a happy accident in our vast cosmos, is being destroyed by madmen that speak to the gods inside their heads.