Blair: history will prove us right on Iraq

[LauraK]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair says that history will forgive America and Britain for invading Iraq, even if they are proved wrong about the threat from its weapons of mass destruction.

In an impassioned defence of the war, Blair told a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Thursday that toppling former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was justified irrespective of the suspected armament that has failed to materialise.

"Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? Let us say one thing: If we are wrong we will have destroyed a threat that at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering," Blair said in what was billed as one of the most important foreign speeches of his six-year premiership.

"That is something I am confident history will forgive."

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[Nambe]

1. Right wing neocons at best!

Go home and quit poodle.

[meegbear]

2. Of course it will ...

if you keep changing the reason(s) why you invaded to fit the moment.

[joeunderdog]

29. New battle cry: All the right reasons for all the wrong things.

Why doesn't someone ask Chimp or Phony Blair if that's what they mean? Lying will be worth it, right?

[truebrit71]

3. Sorry Tony but that doesn't even pass the giggle test..

You and your boss are full of crap.....

[saigon68]

5. LAP DOG OF THE CHIMPANZEE

Step right up folks come and see the little LAP DOG lick the back of his masters hand.

Come see the little POODLE squirm as he tries to tell the parents of those soldiers he sent off to be killed, that they died for British Petroleum, Brown and Root and Haliburton.

Come watch POODLE turn IRAQ-NAM into a wonderful place with love, flowers and music from the sixties.


VOMITING COPIOUSLY AAARGH

[soleft]

4. How Fidel of him

That - history will absolve me line - who else said it besides Castro? Hmmmm, could it be......Hitler?

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. General Mandible said it in "Ants"

after explaining his plan to wipe out all the 'lower elements' of their society.

Sort of a meglomaniac's line. I'm surprized Blair used it.

Then again, he was talking to Americans.

[dfong63]

7. break out the tar and feathers

Let us say one thing: If we are wrong we will have destroyed a threat that at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering

the problem tony is that you've said more than one thing. your story keeps changing. and as for the last bit about how the ends justify the means --- any terrorist would say the same thing.

[Sagan]

8. how typical.. no accountability...

I love how all their disastrous actions will, according to them, eventually be right...

Deficits will go down in 2005..or something.. WMD's will eventually be found.. or if not, history will vindicate us...

These guys' motto should be "Eventually, we may decide to stop fucking you over..."

If they're so smart, how come they can't do something that seems right at the time?

[Cha]

13. And my question to them is ..."Will they ever go and...

Fuck Off?!?

[0007]

9. Did bunker dick show up for Blair's yap yap yap?

Back to the Senate floor and the republians are coming all over the place. Even a few dems.

[denverbill]

10. Yes, Tony, but history is written by the winner, isn't it?

We shall see.

[ze_dscherman]

11. So, he's not a warmonger ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,996354,00.html

[Cha]

12. History will prove you wrong! You're Wrong now, tony...

you were Wrong before the attack on Iraq and "History" is going to treat you and the bushwa like the jackels you are...Lying, thievin', murdering slime catchers. :grr:

And furthermore Why should we believe anything you say after you've lied so many times? :mad:


:kick:

[fisu]

14. for once, Tony isn't lying

Tony, history sure will forgive everything. It forgave nazis, Stalin and Hiroshima. Maybe if you wait long enough it will forgive the gassing of the kurds also. Blair, you're just appalling. :puke:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. TO: fisu

You say that history will forgive Blair. Just wondering if you think the BIG MAN upstairs will too?

[fisu]

17. Cannot tell ...

... but I definetely would like to see Tony trying to get pass the pearly gates

[PROGRESSIVE1]

15. Down with Blair...

Wrong, Prime Minister Bitch!!! History will proove that you WERE WRONG, ARE STILL WRONG, AND WILL ALWAYS BE WRONG!!!

Blair will meet his political end very, very soon.

[Star]

18. How very Straussian/Neocon of him

Ends justify the means, eh? Tell that to the families of the dead and wounded soldiers and Iraqis. I don't think they'll agree with you.

[tom_paine]

19. He can afford to be confident with that Bushevik-Carlyle paycheck!

Mussolini: History will prove us right on the invasions of Ethiopia and Poland. I am confident that history will forgive us.

Think about it: What monster, what despot (or despot's pet poodle) EVER thought history wouldn't vindicate them.

Charlie Manson: I am sure history will forgive us for the Tate-Lobianca murders. Look at the good that came out of it by sparking the Great Race War.

<sarcasm off>

:puke:

Yeah, Blairolini, we're glad you are as confident as every other dictator, oppressor, unjustified invader, and colonizer IN FGUCKING HISTORY.

You sure convinced me, you yipping pathetic poodle.

I, on the other hand, am equally convinced that history will villify Blairolini as it will with Emperor Tiberius* as the wasters of lives, resource, goodwill, and time.

[goforit]

20. We don't have time for history, or else there will be no history!

You guys are pathological murders that need to be
stopped immediately!!!

[DeathvadeR]

21. How much more time do they need?????

I would say they have had ample amount of time!!!!! And time has showed you and your master were wrong, Dead Wrong.

[BehindTheCurtain]

22. Bush: "I take responsibility for the decisions I made"

From the news conference with Blair...this may be the first
time * has ever said those words. 

[Nambe]

23. "Let me say one thing"; we killed thousands of innocent people!!

When an aggressive UN presence could have solved the problem, given time. Time or blood. Time or oil. Blood and oil.

Banish both of the to France.

[Nambe]

24. "Let me say one thing"; we killed thousands of innocent people!!

When an aggressive UN presence could have solved the problem, given time. Time or blood. Time or oil. Blood and oil.

Banish both of the to Afghanistan..

[Eloriel]

25. If so, that's not a future I'd want to live in n/t

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[renegade000]

26. i beg to differ

history will prove US right on iraq...

[tomp]

27. well, if people of the future are going to think it's ok...

...what the hell are we griping about, huh?

just one thing, tony, how do you know what history is going to say about it? i mean, really! this bald assertion is the best you can do? you're desperate, admit it.

[selvatica]

28. 17 standing ovations??????!!!!!!

Ungggggh, I think I am going to puke.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

30. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=19851&mesg_id=19851&page=

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