"Teen Titans" ....Bush and Blair .........Wolcott

[KoKo]

Teen Titans
Posted by James Wolcott

At their vainglorious peak of heroic posturing, Bush and Blair struck a Churchillian cathedral chord of resolve and vision amid the gathering thunder. Bush brought America's military might to the partnership; Blair, the rhetorical eloquence. Or to paraphrase David Hare, Bush supplied the muscle, Blair the bullshit.

Apparently those closer to the dynamic duo drew a different impression of the post-millennial messiahs. Larry C. Johnson's No Quarter introduces us to Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and professor of law, who analyzes the minutes of the notorious meeting of 1/31/03 between Bush and Blair when Bush suggested flying a US plan in United Nations colors and markings over Iraq to goad Saddam Hussein into firing at it and thus supplying the causus belli for war. A war Bush and Blair were determined to wage, WMDs or no WMDs, UN mandate or no UN mandate. Upclose, the two world leaders revealed themselves to be a pair of shrunken heads unable to control their hormonal surges.

"'The war was policy-making on the hoof,' says Sands. 'Others who know the prime minister well have shared with me that he has a limited sense of history and poor attention to detail. He and Bush do not come across as international statesmen. Rather, they appear as teenagers, caught up in a childlike excitement about being at the centre of power. Blair might need to be careful where he travels when he steps down as prime minister. After the Pinochet precedent, he might face prosecution in some countries for waging an illegal war.'"

more at.......
http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/03/teen_titans.php

[kenny blankenship]

1. Blair reminds me of that English guy what's his name

that Infiniti used to deliver their car commercials with years ago when they were new. (Johnathan Pryce.)
Get some guy with an English accent up on screen muttering pretentiously and Americans will believe him if he says the Moon is made of toothpaste. Who better to sell a rebadged Japanese Nissan to Americans than an Englishman they've never seen before, right? (Mark Twain had something about that in H. Finn.)

Fast forward to 2003, Tony Blair was that English faker muttering pretentiously so idiot Americans would believe the excuse for war was for real.

[donsu]

2. smirk and Blair will hide in Dubai

with their private security, which is practically our military.

what part now of our military is not privitized?