Blair Seeks to Shift Focus Away From Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040928/ap_on_re_eu/britain_labour_conference&cid=518&ncid=1480

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BRIGHTON, England - Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) was hoping to use his party's annual conference to switch attention from Iraq (news - web sites) to his campaign for a third term in office, but the unrelenting bloodshed in Iraq and the kidnapping of a British engineer are eclipsing the event.


When Blair addresses the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, he will trumpet new policies ahead of elections, widely expected in May 2005.


The policies are expected to include more help for hardworking families and a radical policy agenda that would extend consumer choice in education and health care.


But the Iraq war, along with the kidnapping of British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley, have cast a pall over the conference.

[acmavm]

1. I don't understand how Blair thinks he can ignore Iraq or make anyone

forget it. He's got quite a problem there. The prospect of a blow-up in the entire Middle East because he decided to play big shot with his buddy george is not something that he can pretend isn't happening.

He's an idiot.

[sweetheart]

2. he's hoping the elephant in the room is invisible

... to the british domestic voter, and that they are willing to
overlook a criminal war, as long as waiting lists are shorter at
their local medical clinic.

Its time for brown, and it seems, if anything, that this conference
has produced this one indisputable thing. Brown should take over
soon, and let blair apologize for the war, and, in that moment
aplogize for the criminality of his mate bush, howard, and other
war murdering assholes. If he makes his apology public, sooner,
then he can reverse some of the damage HE has brought on to global
liberalism.

Blair is long past his use-by date, and he's starting to smell bad.

[Supersedeas]

5. Iraq is a figment of the amputateds' imagination

[hatrack]

3. Huh, ya think?

Lots of luck on this new spin project, Tony.

[saigon68]

4. As the Chimp's Poodle --- he doesn't have much say.

President Cheney will order him to heel shortly. As the President tightens up the Poodle's leash.