Tony Blair knew immediately that 9/11 terror attacks 'changed everything'

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Tony Blair became "very steely, very focused" immediately after the September 11 attacks, his former chief of staff said on Saturday.

In an interview marking 10 years since 9/11, Jonathan Powell told BBC Breakfast: "He realised that things had changed. Many people took longer to get there.

"A lot of people didn't realise quite how much this changed attitudes in America. For them, it was another Pearl Harbour. It changed everything."

Blair was in Brighton on the day preparing for a speech for a TUC conference. He was alone in a room making final tweaks when an aid interrupted him and told him there was something he must watch on TV.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/10/tony-blair-knew-9-11-changed-everything

[msongs]

1. sure Tony we are now into yet another adminstration perpetuating the police state nt

[defendandprotect]

24. KR

[demigoddess]

2. hindsight is 20/20, or so they prove all the time.

eom

[bemildred]

3. This should be in the lounge. nt

[tomg]

4. Of course it changed everything.

It is disaster capitalism. It changed human rights, started the security ( for the wealthy) state, destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan, and began the shredding of the safety net in the US. There are so many cctv's in the UK, the place has become a reality TV show where everyone is on camera all the time. Hey Tony, how is your Godchild doing?

[LeftishBrit]

5. Well yes, because his owners Bush and Murdoch told him so,

[ShockediSay]

6. Didn't change American economic inequality nor the extremism of the Right Wing

Made them both worse, thanks to the neo cons now turned neo Fascists.

[Yon_Yonson]

7. Off course everything changed Tony, you and the Bush/Cheney Crime family made sure of that.

You and you arsehole buddies should be sharing a cell at The Hague

[Mz Pip]

8. Unfortunately

not in a good way. It turned a lot of people in our country into a bunch of paranoid haters.

[marchellojones]

9. Blair is still an arrogant

brick!
"A lot of people didn't realize quite how much this changed attitudes in America. For them, it was another Pearl Harbour. It changed everything."

Of course Blair realized this immediately!

[defendandprotect]

25. Blair is BS ... but the arrogance is based on his knowing where the POWER is ....

as illegitimate as that power may be -- and he's staying with that power!!

[classysassy]

10. Why do American and British war criminals

go free but the African,Asian and Arab war criminals are hunted down and excuted?I realize race has nothing to do with those facts? Sarcasm.

[Solly Mack]

11. Codswallop

[Occulus]

12. Hold the fuck on for a second.

"For them, it was another Pearl Harbour."
Can anyone in class today tell me where that phrase has been seen before? Extra points if Google goes unused.

[TroglodyteScholar]

13. Some stinking PNAC manifesto.

Sickening.

[dflprincess]

15. The first thing I though when I read the phrase was

"Now, where have I heard that before?"

[Tom Ripley]

14. Dogs are often aware that things are amiss. Even lapdogs.

[senseandsensibility]

16. LOL Thanks for lightening the mood.

Welcome to DU!

[Tom Ripley]

22. Thank you! (n/t)

[No Elephants]

17. War criminals on both sides of the pond need to sit down and shut up.

[T_i_B]

18. More likely....

....that he knew immediately that this was another bandwagon he could jump on.

[mulsh]

19. scummy politicians can always recognize an opportunity to

spread propaganda, its what they're hard wired to do.

[AzDar]

20. Is the Bush Lap Dog yipping again?

Roll over and play dead, Tony...:eyes:

[Greybnk48]

21. Another war criminal pipes up for 9/11. Yip, Yip, Yip. n/t

[formercia]

23. The Headline should read:

Tony Blair knew before hand that 9/11 terror attacks 'would change everything'