On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:10:45 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:

Why Tony would vote for Dubya

His advisers have been telling Mr Blair he will be best served by regime
change in Washington. The Prime Minister isn't convinced

Andrew Rawnsley
Sunday October 24, 2004
The Observer

When George W Bush's poll ratings recently dipped, every Labour MP cheered.
Correction: every Labour MP except one. The Prime Minister fretted to one
close friend: 'Whenever Bush weakens in the polls, they start mucking
about.'
Who are these 'they' whose 'mucking about' makes Tony Blair so anxious? They
are Iran with its sponsorship of terrorism and its ambitions to go nuclear.
They are Syria. They are the psychotic regime in North Korea along with the
rest of the planet's rogue and risk states.

The mind of Mr Blair was summarised for me in vivid terms by someone who has
an extremely good claim to know what is going on inside it: 'Tony thinks the
world is a very dangerous and precarious place. Bush is the tough guy who
keeps the bad guys under their rocks.'

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Bush has run for a second term as a 'War President'. Even if the reasons for
his defeat were more complicated, his eviction from the White House would be
widely taken as a vote of no confidence in the war by the country that led
it. Even if this was not true, Islamic terrorism would claim it as a great
victory.

Tony Blair feels his reputation and fate are entwined with that of George W
Bush. In the mind of the Prime Minister, nothing transcends the imperative
to keep those 'bad guys' under 'their rocks'. What much of the world and the
Labour Party fears about George W Bush is what commends him to the Prime
Minister.

If he had a vote, I strongly suspect that Tony Blair would cast it for
Dubya.

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I, too, believe PM Blair would vote for Bush...as would President Putin, PM
Berlusconi, PM John Howard, PM Belka, and PM Koizumi. Of course, Kerry is
getting endorsements from Kim Jong-il and Castro...and probably jockstrap
chirac. Kerry talks about building coalitions...but it's scary to think
about who he plans on building them with. Bush already has the leaders of
Russia, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, Japan, and South Korea, as
well as dozens of others, on his side. Who else would Kerry draw in?



Fidel Castro, Yasser Arrafat, Osam Bin Laden, All of Hamas (they have
already endorsed him), Kofi Annan (stop this oil for food scandal) and
a whole gang of other terrorists