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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 10:09 AM
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Tony Blair 'relished' sending British soldiers off to war
Tony Blair 'relished' sending British soldiers off to war
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
(Filed: 18/09/2005)

Tony Blair "relished" sending troops to war, according to claims by a former Downing Street aide which the Government tried to suppress.

The Prime Minister also railed at "the f***ing Welsh" and made policies minutes before going on television, Lance Price says in his book The Spin Doctor's Diary.

Mr Price, a former deputy head of Downing Street communications, claims that Mr Blair promised Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, that the Government would not change its policy on Europe without telling him first.

The Government forced Mr Price to remove sections of the diary before publication. Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell accused the former BBC journalist of "betrayal".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/18/nblur18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/18/ixnewstop.html
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 10:12 AM
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1. Why is it that government always defines telling the truth as betrayal?
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 10:31 AM
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2. Blair is nothing but
an evil little turd.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 10:36 AM
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3. We thought Blair was a good leader when he teamed up with Clinton.
We now think he duped his country and the world, but especially all those innocent, innocent people of Iraq and all those low paid American and Foreign Soldiers for Corporate America, U.K., and Israel, Inc/Ltd.

Consulting with and making promises to Murdoch. Give me a break.

Our world is being turned upside down.

Blair turns out to be a Linda Blair.
The Clintons turn right.
Obama is not talking as straight as he did.


But, some things remain the same and improve. Who would have thought that the right wing cabal, PNAC, the Fed Society, the CEO's and their stockholders and all the reverends could team up so quickly to make a disaster worse - and then profit from it by imprisoning the poor for brainwahsing purposes and making a profit on the whole shebang while stealing the town for their own purposes.

It is all going to backfire -

More people are going to discover the audacity and criminality of the right wing and it will be boomerang time.

Cheney is going down in power and his marionette is going to left on the floor with his strings in disarray.
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