Blair: "They use Iraq to divide us"

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14647130.htm

The British leader told the council he found it obscene that terrorism could be portrayed as a response to U.S. and British aggression against Muslims in Iraq.

In Iraq, "the obstacle is terrorism, the victims are largely Muslim" Blair said. "They use Iraq to divide us -- just as they use Afghanistan, where again their terror is the obstacle to Afghan democracy, just as they use Palestine, where terrorism does not create progress but destroys it."

[LisaM]

1. I'm sick of his honeyed tongue

he needs to take a good look in the mirror.

[maxsolomon]

2. There is no Hate where none is Angry

n/t

[Peace Patriot]

3. The US/UK terrorism inflicted on Iraqis is horrible, and if we indeed

survive, as a species, to write our history, it will go down as one of the worst crimes of our era. Over 100,000 innocent Iraqis slaughtered by our bombs alone, in the initial invasion, according to the British doctors' report. Extensive use of torture. Detention without charge. "Pacifying" neighborhoods. Mercenary death squads. Bombing of villages even now.

The civil war is minor by comparison, and at least the Iraqis who are involved in it have a right to be there.

I would like to know more about Blair's phone records on July 7, 2003, the day he was told that David Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things." Phone calls to AF-1, I mean. July 14, 2003: Plame outing. July 18, 2003: David Kelly found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances. July 22, 2003: second Plame outing, of the entire CIA WMD monitoring capability, the Brewster Jennings Co., putting all projects and agents are great risk.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Not to mention polluting the Iraqi enviroment and landscape

with poisonous depleted uranium.

From a presenation on depleted uranium by Thomas Fasy MD PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine NYC:

By the early 1900s, uranium was well recognized to be a kidney toxin. By the mid-1940s, uranium was known to be a neurotoxin. By the early 1970s, uranium was recognized to be a carcinogen based on mortality studies of uranium workers and on experiments with dogs and monkeys. The first evidence that uranyl ions bind to DNA was reported in 1949 and by the early 1990s, uranium was shown to be a mutagen. Also, in the early 1990s, uranium was shown to be a teratogen, that is, an inducer of birth defects. The toxic effects of uranium on the kidney and on the nervous system typically occur within days of exposure and radiation probably plays little or no role in mediating these effects. In contrast, the carcinogenic effects of uranium have a delayed onset. The teratogenic effects of uranium might be due to exposure of one parent prior to conception as well as to exposure of the mother to uranium early in pregnancy.

Now let us briefly consider the routes of exposure to uranium. In the context of the dust particles derived from depleted uranium weapons, this means exposure to uranium oxides. By far the most dangerous route of exposure to uranium oxides is the inhalational or respiratory route.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4124449

[info being]

5. Fuck you Tony Blair

[movie_girl99]

6. he needs to pull shrubs penis out of his ass n/t

[Binka]

7. An Abject And Stunningly Gross Display Of Lies

Tony ever grow a garden? Understand a root? You fucking sick twisted nasty teethed BASTARD! I hate him more than W. He fucking is smarter than this. This crass attempt at deflection will have the Brits at his throat. Rightly so. Fuck you Tony....Margaret was a bigger man than you.