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2003-02-24 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-24 02:18 pm|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I prefer "defecate or discommode". It has a nice ring to it. ;-)

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-24 07:27:17|| 2003-02-24 07:27:17|| Front Page Top

#2 As I understand it, the main reason we went to the UN and and pursued the international diplomacy route was to keep Mr. Blair happy and to get the Europeans on board.

Well, Mr. Blair may lose his job soon (resulting in a British withdrawl from Iraq, and probably Afghanistan), the UN has been demonstrated to be useless (big news to some people, apparently), the EU is tanking due to French arrogance (which I suspect is actually good compared to an EU dominated by a Franco-German alliance), NATO itself is ruptured like never before, there's a tremendous split between European and American popular opinion, and it's a virtual certainty that no President of the United States will ever again go to the United Nations for anything that's even slightly important to US national security.

There's nothing here I can't live with, since most of our "alliances" are actually parasitical in nature, and I never had the faintest faith in the UN. But I wonder what Mr. Blair thinks of the diplomatic approach now?

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-02-24 07:51:49|| 2003-02-24 07:51:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not sure about the legal nicities regarding delcaring war, but I'm pretty certain Blair doesn't need a vote in order to sanction it - he can give that order without permission from anybody, that's the PM's sole responsibility (with token approval from the Queen). So there won't be any risk of defeat for Blair on this issue at the hands of parliament.

"Mr Blair's spokesman confirmed that on Wednesday MPs will be given another vote on the Iraq crisis. But Downing Street has accepted this vote will be only to approve the action so far taken by the government - not to sanction any future action." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2793939.stm)
Tony should still be around in a couple of weeks.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-02-24 08:32:04|| 2003-02-24 08:32:04|| Front Page Top

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