Blair: 'We would have been close even if 9/11 hadn't happened'

[T_i_B]

Interview in today's UK Sunday Telegraph. Make of this what you will.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/23/wcon23.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/23/ixworld.html

How easy was it to establish a good working relationship with Bush after Clinton?

"Even those who most strongly disagree with President Bush in the international community would say that he is both extremely courteous and very straightforward. I suspect it would still have been a good, close, working relationship if September 11 had not happened, but obviously that redefined the relationship at every single level. If you look at the joint press conference we gave after meeting for the first time in February 2001, I was talking about the whole issue to do with proliferation, of nuclear and biological weapons, of terrorism, because I had become increasingly concerned about it.

"By 2001, before September 11, I was already in a pretty tough mode towards global terrorism or the proliferation of nuclear weapons. becoming increasingly alarmed at the number of terrorist incidents and also that this terrorism seemed to be aimed at creating the largest number of casualties."

"I just go with my instinct. But I keep saying to people: one of the greatest failures of progressive politics in my lifetime has been that, in the anti-American parts of the progressive Left, we have ended up on the wrong side with someone as evil as Saddam. Even now, when we have been there with a UN resolution, we are on the wrong side of the battle between terrorism and democracy. I can't understand how progressive people can be on the wrong side of that argument.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. ha

the poddle speak to defend chimp image of how to be a cuorteous host to a foreign guest.

[T_i_B]

2. Well Bush is being nice to Blair too

Here in an interview from yesterday's Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/22/wcon22.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/22/ixworld.html

I have actually put this on a thread, but it's sinking like a log.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x994289

[justgamma]

3. Their first press conference

and all I remember is that they both use the same toothpaste.

[warrior1]

4. Sit..lay down..roll over

poodle.