I should say that it was marvellous seeing George Bush without his autocue
on Breakfast TV yesterday morning. He had trouble putting two words
together. Public school educated Tony Blair had to step in to help him. I
saw Blair interviewed on Channel 4 TV the night before and Bush repeated
what he had said word by word.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
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From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: London calling
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Juan Cole on Salon puts it better than I could:
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/08/blowback/index.html
>
> Well...I have run a gamut of emotions in the last days, unique even for
> me. Cold-turkey withdrawal from tobacco products starting Tuesday 2 PM is
> not "helping." Oddly the temporary (it damn well better be) physical and
> emotional discomfort I'm experiencing is making me far more cautious than
> usual about what I say. Maybe....
>
> Bush's lost opportunity in Afghanistan? It's odd that implicit in Cole's
> comment was the idea that he had no problem with "us" going in there and
> turning the country into a WalMart. What happened, then, if there is some
> level of proof (any level will do) that we could have had Osama at Tora
> Bora but let him escape? If he was allowed to escape, who allowed it, who
> held the back door open just a crack? I do not happen to think the US
> military command is made up of jerks. Who, then, might have misled them
> and to what purpose? Why is Osama ben Ladin worth more to us running
> around than suspended in a cage like Iago at the end of Welles' _Othello_?
>
> I cannot agree about Blair, not this time. I was driving in yesterday
> morning when Blair spoke on the BBC. The phrase "trembling with
> barely-controlled rage" is about right. It was like the guy snapped. I
> would LOVE to think something inside Tony Blair was awakened. To what?
> That he made a deal with the Devil, and that he is going to take a more
> active role to combat the threat to his country. James Bond is a myth,
> but MI-6 may not be. Or is it, Brits? You tell me--enquiring minds want
> to know. You think he will leave Dick Cheney to manipulate only one man?
>
> By contrast Bush sounded like Bush. "No more of that, Master Shallow, no
> more of that."
>
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