Reply #11: Then why did he help bush and card [View All]

[salin]

"launch the new product" in sept 2002 - with the push for the war vote (and puttng dems in a box for the midterms.) Bush could't do it at that time.... it would look too political. So Blair gives the dodgy dossier piece - and starts speaking out (and he had been relatively quiet on the issue)... just before the war vote - moving the story in the public, giving bush credibility as to why now (remember, Byrd wanted the vote to happen after the election...)

Blair, helped bush reclaim the Senate. I know that you disagree with me, but we could wager on it - I think he will be more help to Bush than any of the democratic candidates over the next 8 months. It will be subtle - but it will be there. Sadly he seems to have made a deal with the proverbial political devil (as you have asserted before he may have felt that he had to, and that in doing so he could assert some direction to bush's foreign policy... ) and it may be more politically hot for him - who echos Bush's rhetoric about the righteouness of the cause of war - to risk a democratic US president who is critical of the circumstances of this war, its conduct, its lack of international coalition building, etc. We differ on our read on this - and only time will tell.