Blair Compares Battle Against Insurgents In Iraq To WW II

[Strelnikov_]

But I thought freedom was on the march?

Edit to Add: Note his statement "rally behind a fresh battle for the control of Iraq". The Kerry campaign needs to pick up on this interview to counter the administration claims that things are under control.

Sorrowful Blair urges unity in face of Iraq terror threat
Sunday September 26, 2004
The Observer

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1312963,00.html

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But in a wide-ranging interview with The Observer on the eve of Labour's annual party conference in Brighton, the Prime Minister made clear he would stand his ground. He also:

- warned Iran not to meddle with its neighbour, denouncing as 'completely unacceptable' reports of it helping Moqtada al-Sadr's rebel militia;

- compared the battle against insurgents in Iraq to the height of the Second World War;

. . .

Blair called on those divided over the war to rally behind a fresh battle for the control of Iraq: 'I can understand why people still have a powerful disagreement about the original decision to go to war. But whatever that disagreement, surely it is absolutely clear we have to stay and see it through. Because the consequence of not doing so is that global terrorism will get a tremendous boost.'

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[rpannier]

1. Yeah...

a boost. Sure. Like the whole invasion of Irfaq didn't give them a boost. What an f***ing twit.
After howard and scrub are gone...then blair has to go.

[A_Possum]

2. NOW you figure it out, Tony

There are consequences.

[stepnw1f]

3. Yes... A War You Started with Bush

I guess that means you and Bush are responsible for starting WWIII.

[gauguin57]

4. I really really really really hate this word but ...

... what a douchebag.

[Carla in Ca]

5. Everything and everyone that * touches....

tarnishes.

[Nordic]

6. they're the resistance, and we're the Nazis

Who's usually the hero in the movie version?

Uh ..... let me think .......

[AP]

7. So what was the comparison?

I've been known to compare night to day.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. I wonder how the survivors of the battle of Britain feel about this?

You know those who lived through the German air raids over Britain during WWII.

[fujiyama]

9. I was about to say the same thing

I doubt this kind of shit would go well with the British people. The Europeans in general were very irritated with Bush in July when he tried comparing WWII and DDay with his cluster fuck in Iraq.

God, these two (Bush and Blair) make two cheeks of a really big ass.

[tom_paine]

10. So, it IS just like WWII!

Just like when the Nazis invaded Poland and lied about why they did it. And the resistors who stepped up to stop them.

Yep. Just like that.

[lawladyprof]

11. More like 1776

When the world's best military (army?) was taken down by a ragtag band of insurgents.

Went to school (junior high school age) in England for a while and one of the most interesting things I encountered was a description of the American Revolution in a textbook (written, of course, for British students). One of the way stations on my journey toward being able to see things, albeit imperfectly, from other people's perspectives.

'Course one of the most amusing realizations is that this entire country sprang into being, in large part, because it wanted tax cuts (for the French and Indian War "bill").