PM Blair speaking now on CSPAN (US) now (2:10 am EST pre-recorded)

[CottonBear]

I am thinking of you all in Great Britain.

Peace and love to you all. I have so enjoyed visiting your lovely country a number of years ago. :)

CB

[applegrove]

1. Yes. Peace to you all! n/t

[CottonBear]

2. Hello and Greetings appplegrove from GA in the USA.

I am so very unsettled and worried by the events of these past days.

I was in London during one of the last (1990-1991) IRA Christmas bombing campaigns (on the Tube and on the suburban train lines into London) and there were bombs on the Tube lines and Victoria Station was closed but I still rode the Tube and toured the city. I love London and would return and live there if it were possible for me to do so. I could have stayed but I needed to come home at the time. It was difficult to leave.

Cheers! Peace. CB

[applegrove]

3. I think Blair is a naive man. I think he got hoodwinked by the neocons

into believing Britain had to go into Iraq since they had caused so much trouble there over the years. I'm one for stopping psychopathic dictatorships. But really - when you do that you go in with ENOUGH TROOPS and you don't kick out the UN from your plans so that you will not have to face UN procurement laws which ensure the vast portion of the money invested goes to local sources and improves the local economy.

On so many levels the way they did it was so wrong.

Neocons are always wrong. That is just who they are. They were wrong in the 1980s when they told themselves "that the middle east couldn't govern themselves so deals with elites of strongmen were a good thing". That created Islamist radicals.

I just hope that the Brits put the Bushites to shame with how they handle this. And I hope that will give them comfort. Somehow. And I think it will for many. Just not the families of the people who died. All we can do for them is send them our love. And messages of peace.

[CottonBear]

4. Neocons are wrong. Blair WAS naive. We were sold down the river.

I am so veryunhappy. How did w in the UK a d the US end up in such a horrible international position?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. Thank you CottonBear and applegrove

Our American and Canadian friends (and the rest of the world) have been wonderful to us here on DU.

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