varwoche
17th April 2004, 11:27 AM
I recall an impassioned speech Tony Blair made during runup to war. He said he was going to hold US feet to the fire to be a fair broker in the mideast.
Bush seems hell-bent on alienating every US ally on the planet. And Blair seems like a phony.
newsday (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-blair-bush-mideast,0,7137052.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines)
While Tony Blair and President Bush made a public show of unity Friday in Washington, critics at home said the White House's endorsement of Israel's proposal to keep some West Bank settlements was a major snub to the British prime minister.
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Many here believe that in pledging British support for the Iraq war, Blair pressed Bush to push anew for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Some commentators even suggest he made Bush's vow to do so a condition for his support on Iraq.
"It's beginning to look humiliating for Blair -- the one promise he extracted for his dogged fidelity in Iraq trampled on so publicly," columnist Jonathan Freedland wrote in the left-leaning Guardian newspaper.
Bush seems hell-bent on alienating every US ally on the planet. And Blair seems like a phony.
newsday (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-blair-bush-mideast,0,7137052.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines)
While Tony Blair and President Bush made a public show of unity Friday in Washington, critics at home said the White House's endorsement of Israel's proposal to keep some West Bank settlements was a major snub to the British prime minister.
...
Many here believe that in pledging British support for the Iraq war, Blair pressed Bush to push anew for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Some commentators even suggest he made Bush's vow to do so a condition for his support on Iraq.
"It's beginning to look humiliating for Blair -- the one promise he extracted for his dogged fidelity in Iraq trampled on so publicly," columnist Jonathan Freedland wrote in the left-leaning Guardian newspaper.