I'm no expert on the politics on Airstrip One, but it sure seems like Toady Blair's in trouble. The Tories seem to be turning against bipartisan attitudes on foreign affairs, while the Labour back-benchers are up in arms, since they feel that Blair lied to them about Iraq. The GUARDIAN reports a transcript of a conversation betweeh the UK's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and the US Secretary of Superstate, Colin Powell, in which the former expresses deep doubt about the reliability of the latter's evidence about those famous WsMD right before Powell was going to speak to the UN. (Straw denies that any such conversation occurred.)
While in the build-up to the Crusade Against Saddam, Blair helped Bush attain some (limited) legitimacy, now he seems a weak link in Bush's chain-mail.
Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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