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catstevens · Jun 21, 2006

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Blair faces revival of 'US poodle' image

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TokeTrip · Jun 22, 2006

Not funny.

Woodstock_Blazer · Jul 6, 2006

lol your not reli cat stevens are you

catstevens · Jul 6, 2006

NO
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catstevens · Jul 25, 2006

Britons Want Bush-Blair Divorce

Source The large majority of Britons opposes the Blair-Bush political marriage and wants a divorce and independence from the United States, a new wide-ranging survey showed on Tuesday, July 24. Some 63 percent of 1,001 British adults over 18 interviewed by telephone for the Guardian/ICM poll believe Prime Minister Tony Blair has tied the country "too closely" to the US, reported The Guardian. Even a 54 percent majority of Blair's governing centre-left Labour supporters - traditionally more supportive of Blair's foreign policy position – agree that Blair brought the country too close to Washington. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were more critical of Britain's much-vaunted special relationship with the US, with 68 and 83 percent respectively. The Guardian's front page headline read: "Stand up to US, voters tell Blair", the message from the survey of 1,001 adults. In its editorial, the left-leaning daily said there was a perception that Blair was merely tailing Bush. "The caricature contains enough truth to further weaken British interests abroad and to further damage the government's already weakened standing at home." The survey was conducted following an off-the-cuff chat between Bush and Blair over a G8 lunch was accidentally broadcast and heard by the whole world. The British media pored over the text of the conversation, saying it cast Blair in a subservient role and a Bush poodle.
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Lebanon War
Meanwhile, the sweeping majority of Britons polled also blasted Israel's bloody military offensive against Lebanon, now in its 14th day.Only 22 percent of them think Israel has reacted proportionately to a Hizbullah attack on a military post that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and two others taken prisoners.Blair has come under fire for again toeing the American line in rejecting an immediate ceasefire and being apathetic to the plight of the Lebanese.Unlike other international leaders, he has refused to describe the Israeli attacks on Lebanon as disproportionate.Israel launched an offensive on Lebanon after Hizbullah took prisoner two Israeli soldiers in a border raid on July 11 and said it would only free them in exchange for the release of prisoners at Israeli jails.More than 400 people in Lebanon, the overwhelming majority are civilians, have been killed in random Israeli air strikes and bombardment that also left Lebanon hard-won infrastructure in ruins.
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The Daily Telegraph newspaper saw in Blair's position a reflection of how Britain's standing in the Middle East had declined.It pointed out that Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett had not been sent to the region, unlike her French and German counterparts."Britain, once seen as a major player in the Middle East, has been represented by a junior minister (Kim Howells) who has sown confusion, and even incited ridicule," the Telegraph's editorial said.On Tuesday, Beckett struggled to defend Britain's position, grilled by both members of the opposition and Labour backbenchers in parliament.Peter Tapsell MP, from the main opposition Conservatives, accused Blair of "collusion" with Bush for having given Israel the "go-ahead to wage unlimited war for 10 days."Labour MP David Winnick asked whether it was time that Britain -- and indeed the United States -- spell out to Israel that "what they are doing can simply not be justified under any circumstances.""That is the view, I believe, of the vast majority of people in this country."

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catstevens · Jul 28, 2006

PM's right to go to war 'must end'
By Brendan Carlin, Political Correspondent
(Filed: 28/07/2006)

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The prime minister should lose his "unfettered power" to take Britain to war, a cross-party report said yesterday. The House of Lords committee on the constitution called for an end to the use of the royal prerogative to deploy British troops into conflicts abroad. The prerogative gives Mr Blair the right to go to war without consulting Parliament. In 2003, the Prime Minister broke with tradition and allowed MPs a vote before the invasion of Iraq, which he insists set a precedent for the future. However, the royal prerogative system is still in place and the Government wants to retain the option in certain circumstances. But the Lords report said it was "outdated". It recommended that the Government should seek Parliamentary approval before using military force abroad, indicating the objectives of deployment, its legal basis, its size and likely duration. The committee recognised that there would be times when military action might be required before parliamentary approval could be sought. It said a Parliamentary vote would need to be organised at the earliest opportunity. Lord Holme, the Liberal Democrat committee chairman, said: "In this day and age, the use of the royal prerogative to order military action abroad is an anachronism. It should not form the basis for legitimate war-making in a parliamentary democracy in the 21st century. "In the days when the Royal prerogative was, literally, at the monarch's disposal, Parliament controlled the money, so could keep military adventures in check. In the modern era, Government controls both the money and the troops."

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Schismatic · Aug 7, 2006

catstevens said:

The prime minister should lose his "unfettered power" to take Britain to war, a cross-party report said yesterday.
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I wish something similar would happen in the US.

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