GU: Blair's fear of a Bushwhacking

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Blair's fear of a Bushwhacking
Andrew Rawnsley
Sunday April 11, 2004
The Observer

It is easy to visualise what George W. Bush hopes to gain when he welcomes the First Foreign Friend to the White House at the end of this week. Being able to show the American public that the British Prime Minister is still standing 'shoulder to shoulder' in Iraq may be some reassurance to President Bush's increasingly dubious electorate, half of whom, according to opinion polls, now think America should pull out its troops.

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Though Mr Blair has banned his colleagues from voicing any preferences about the outcome of the contest, as well as forbidding them from crossing the Atlantic to provide any campaign help to their Democrat cousins, virtually all of the Government is quietly desperate for Senator Kerry to unseat George Bush.

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Put bluntly, Blair's relationship with Bush has become a horrible embarrassment and a dire liability which damages the Prime Minister every time it is placed on public display.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1189923,00.html

[grytpype]

1. Here's what's going to happen.

Right before Election Night, Blair is going to say there needs to be a sharp change of direction, and he is hoping for a Kerry victory. Bush will not have time to retaliate.

[ezee]

2. That will be a HAPPY DAY!

[Lindacooks]

3. Gee, I guess this answers the repukes

who thought Kerry didn't have foreign support!!

[Wiscmason]

4. Too bad Tony

Kerry is going to win and you'll have to pay the price for lying in bed with Georgieboy. Sorry to say ol' chap but your own political mortality will be coming up soon. Its too bad Tony, and I actually liked you as a prime minister for GB. Don't stay up too long waiting to get through to John when he wins.. it might be a few days.

[Atlanticist]

5. There was an article in the Economist a couple of weeks ago

which said that if Bush loses, following Anzar in Spain, Blair would be trapped on the wrong side of history. Serves him right. His tacit support for the recent genocide in Falluja should shame him as Rwanda should shame Clinton, Annan and Major.

I pray that Blair urges Americans to do their patriotic duty and vote for Kerry, but unfortunately that's impossible to conceive. Given that most of Blairs ministers would be considered ideologically mainstream Democrat, and also given the contempt most of the "intellectual" wing of the Labour Party feel for Bush and his cohorts, I would say that 95% of the Labour party are desperate for Kerry in Nov.

Gordon Brown, who's Blair's No 2, and likely successor, who heads up our Treasury is a redistributionist and "Champion of the Poor of the highest order (Scottish Presbyterian). I'd LOVE to know what he thinks of Bush, but protocol demands he supports his Prime Minister. However, many Labour backbenchers are not so acquiescent. Blair had to fabricate WMD in order to get approval for war through Parliament, so anti-war is the bulk of the Labour Party, and indeed the British people.

Blair will win the election in 2005 however, no matter what happens in Iraq and in Nov. His domestic policy is excellent (and I'm not even a Labour supporter), but why he supports Bush is completely beyond me. Most of his colleagues, most of the British press and most of the British people assuredly do not!!!