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Imran Siddiqui
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The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:27
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS...reut/index.html
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LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose closeness to U.S. President George W. Bush earned him praise from Washington and derision at home, says he thinks the American leader's lightweight image is "complete bull."
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Blair said the image was not only "complete bull" but "total nonsense."
He added in the interview with contributing editor David Margolick, "I was about to say, 'He's not someone who will philosophize,' but actually that's not true, because he does. But 'directness' is the best way I can describe it. He has a very, very direct way of stating exactly what he feels about a situation."
Blair added about Bush, "He is highly intelligent, and it's not clotted by so many nuances that the meaning is obscured. The good thing about (Bush) is that once he does really think that an issue has to be tackled he has big reserves of courage for doing it, and he won't really be diverted."
"I trust him, and that is extremely important at our level of politics," Blair, a chief Bush ally in the Iraq war, said.
The British prime minister defended being both friends with Bush and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, saying, "They're very different people, but so what? We all have different friends."
Regarding his and Bush's strong religious beliefs, Blair said, "I can't say it's something we've discussed, but it's something we share." Although Blair denied that he and Bush prayed together, Margolick said that someone close to Blair told him that they probably have.
Blair, who was savaged at home in political cartoons as being Bush's "poodle" for supporting the Iraq war, defended the action. "I think we did the right thing, I think it's going the right way, but I'm now on to the next problem, which is making sure that everything's sorted out in the aftermath."
In the interview Blair called himself a "staunch" supporter of Israel, a minority view in Britain's House of Commons, according to Margolick.
The author then quoted Labour Member of Parliament Tam Dalyell, the longest serving member of the House of Commons, as saying he thought Blair was unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisors. Margolick said Dalyell named Peter Mandelson, a former Blair cabinet member, Lord Levy, Blair's chief fund-raiser and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, an Anglican who has a Jewish grandparent. |
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LoneWolf
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He went to Yale and Harvard Business School. What have all these other geniuses done to be able to all him a "moron" (the current epithet of the day)?
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LoneWolf
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Hey, the geniuses have arrived. !
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:27
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So Blair thinks GW is highly intelligent.
That says a lot about Blair's level of intelligence.
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Demerzel
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Originally posted by Tingkai
So Blair thinks GW is highly intelligent.
That says a lot about Blair's level of intelligence. |
It's diplomatic speak, as someone else remarked - he's not going to say he's a fool is he?
Doesn't mean anything, politicans like to pat each other on the back more often than your arverage american :P
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02-05-2003 10:49
THIS IS SHOCKING NEWS!!!!
he's a politician, and thus, not really a good person~
Chalk one up for Tolls.
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