Bush eyes Blair for Mideast peace role

WASHINGTON - President Bush has talked with British Prime Minister Tony Blair about taking a role as a Middle East peace envoy after he leaves office next week. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, the State Department's top diplomat for the Middle East, talked with Blair in London on Wednesday, while the White House and State Department spoke glowingly about the prime minister's credentials but said there was nothing to announce yet.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also expressed support for Blair playing a role in the Middle East.

"Officials in the prime minister's office are aware of this idea and Prime Minister Olmert is very supportive of Prime Minister Blair and of his continuing involvement in the Middle East and the peace process," Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said.

Blair steps down next Wednesday.

"Obviously Prime Minister Blair has been very active and deeply involved in Middle East peace issues throughout his prime ministership," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said
Bush eyes Blair for Mideast peace role - Yahoo! News

Mans gonna be lookin' for a job.......knows the position pretty well:D

Have a good one!:s4:

Noone makes the UK look like a little bitch better than the Blair-meister. Hopefully once he steps down we'll have our own voice again.

Lets see, take the Bush butt boy, the same one that helped orchestrate the invasion of a soveriegn Muslim country, and make him the "peace" envoy to the middle east, HaHaHaHaHoHoHoHoHeHeHeHe. Totally insane. When I read some of this shit, I feel like I must be on a bad acid trip.

Blair is a PRICK and left office before his ass was kicked outta it and Gordon Brown will go, along with the labour party next election.Blair ruined the labour party it used to be all about the people but then came along Blair and new labour trying to be hip, I smoked a spliff at collage he said never smoked a spliff in his life he was bullied at collage becuase of his big f&%$*ng ears what a pillok he may as well go to the middle east becuase he sure aint wanted in the uk! WANKER. .DAVE.

Phyco i was just looking at your gallery dude i thought you had stopped growing .Plants look exellent . How come we dont see you around the grow section no more.very nice plants dude and top job on the grow.

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Phyco i was just looking at your gallery dude i thought you had stopped growing .Plants look exellent . How come we dont see you around the grow section no more.very nice plants dude and top job on the grow.

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I tend to stay away from that area just because I do grow........keep things low key and on the hush lets say. Ya just never know who's looking in. With Zandor gone I may have to look in a bit more than before but with people like Stinky around.......I think it's pretty well covered right now. I tip my hat to the lady!!

By the way, sounds like you got a pretty tight grip on the parties over there.....you should start a thread and tell us more about them. I'd be VERY interested in how the system works, etc........

Have a good one!:s4:

Blair can't even maintain peace in the UK. I'll be anticipating a long stretch for his war crimes in the middle east when he steps down.

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Blair can't even maintain peace in the UK. I'll be anticipating a long stretch for his war crimes in the middle east when he steps down.

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What war crimes? Sorry but I'm at a bit of a loss on this issue.

Have a good one!:s4:

So is Mr Blair. Most of the rest of the democratic populus seem to think that he has blood on his hands though, I think it's to do with the thousands of innocent civilians he collaborated with Bush in slaughtering recently. You might call that collatoral damage, I call it a crime against humanity.

What I can't understand about Gordon Brown just stepping into Blairs shoes is, there are loads of good MP's still in the labour party who hold true to its original socialist values. Why didn't any of them make a challenge to the leadership?

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So is Mr Blair. Most of the rest of the democratic populus seem to think that he has blood on his hands though, I think it's to do with the thousands of innocent civilians he collaborated with Bush in slaughtering recently. You might call that collatoral damage, I call it a crime against humanity.

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"Intent" is always a key factor in a crime. I dont think that either man had intent to kill civilians in the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Civilian deaths are a part of war but if the truth were known........I believe that the suicide bombers had a hell of alot more to do with that than either of the leaders mentioned.

Have a good one!:s4:

You can hardly spray a country with bombs without intending to kill innocent civilians who have nothing to do with terrorism. Everyone knew this would happen, and whatsmore when the civilian casualties started to mount, they carried on bombing. It simply doesn't wash to say that they have impunity here, thousands of people died, way more than in 911. It is still a war crime.

Compare this to previous wars and you'll see that with the precision bombing the civilian death toll is far less. During WW2 for example.....cities such as Bagdad would have been completely whiped out. Remember what Berlin looked like?

Have a good one!:s4:

I know that in WW2 America completely missed germany once and and razed a 2000 year Dutch city to the ground by mistake.

As wars become less centred around ground troops and more around fighter jets the civilian death toll has risen dramatically.

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I know that in WW2 America completely missed germany once and and razed a 2000 year Dutch city to the ground by mistake.

As wars become less centred around ground troops and more around fighter jets the civilian death toll has risen dramatically.

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Very true........but you have to admitt that the civilian death toll dropped due to precision bombing.

Have a good one!:s4:

Well at least they manage to target the right country these days I suppose.

I'm not actually a Blair lover, although after living under the conservatives for 18 years, he was a breathe of fresh air back in the late 90's, but i have to say he's probably the right man for the job. He's the perfect diplomat and is a good communicator. Already has hands on experience in the Middle East peace process and helped broker an Historic peace deal in Northern Ireland and let's face it up until Iraq was one of the most popular prime ministers this country has ever had, confirmed by back to back landslide election victories Some of you will choke on my next statement but i also think he is a man of high integrity and truly believes that his support for the Bush administrations 'war on terror' is Right and for our best interests. I'm not banging the drum for Blair here but having lived through the 'Maggie' era i think he is demonised a bit. Now she was a proper B"*TARD and gave me my socialist, (small s), angle on life.So for me yeah ! why not Blair for Middle East peace envoy, it'ill keep him out of the country lol ...don't all shout at once.

Shout? I can't even talk I'm so out of breath from laughing. Yeah, Blair was doing alright up until the war in Iraq, now everyone hates him, especially all the families in Iraq who lost relatives. Once we all realised how much of a Bush sucking two faced lying warmongering capitalist dastard he was...

Lol Just my honest opinion

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Some of you will choke on my next statement but i also think he is a man of high integrity and truly believes that his support for the Bush administrations 'war on terror' is Right and for our best interests..

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Don't see ya posting in these parts much but your more than welcome to frequent more often. I agree with ya 100%! He recognizes the fact that there are bad people out there and is willing to stand up for what is NOW an unpopular stance.

Have a good one!:s4:

Blair done his bit in the peace prosses and his backing of the iraq war isnt a problem to me the usa are our allies and they ask for help we should be behind their backs no questions simple as that. for me it was his treating of the royal family especialy the queen after the death of prinsess diana.A lot of brits wont agree with me hear but im a total loyalist im a jock and proud of it but at the end of the day its our queen and he disrespected her badly , he even new this himself and did appoligies but the bad intensoin was there . what some politicians seem to forget she is our queen and thats that and we should show respect weather we want to or not hge would have been hung for that 200 years ago.

Read Captive State by George Monbiot. It is a captivating read on how Blair is selling our public sector off to American capitalists, and of how we stand to lose through failing services and stealth taxes.

Blair is part of the ruling bloodline. Members of that bloodline always play a crucial role on the global scene after leaving office. They never retire and their influence never wanes...

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Read Captive State by George Monbiot. It is a captivating read on how Blair is selling our public sector off to American capitalists, and of how we stand to lose through failing services and stealth taxes.

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LOL....we accuse ours of selling off to Arab countries. Just a bit ironic if ya ask me. I'll be checking out that book......sounds interesting.

I'd still like to see one of you gents from overseas post a bit more in a new thread regarding your government, how it works, differences between the partys, etc.........

Have a good one!:s4:

What i hate about Blair is the fact he's a complete twat who's in love with himself. He thinks he's the best leader this country has had since bloody Lionheart. All this traitor has done is gave us a few million more immigrants, higher taxes, political correctness, poverty, terrorism, crime and that upper class gay accent of his.

Good riddance to this moron. I hope he moves off to Texas to be with his playmate Bush. England doesn't want him nor need him.

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LOL....we accuse ours of selling off to Arab countries. Just a bit ironic if ya ask me. I'll be checking out that book......sounds interesting.

I'd still like to see one of you gents from overseas post a bit more in a new thread regarding your government, how it works, differences between the partys, etc.........

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Do, it's one of my favourite books and written by a very good writer. He wrote it in the style of part narrative, part factual account. It's one book I found extremely hard to put down, and I am not a big reader.

Let me know if Bush has had it banned in your country and I'll send you over a copy ;-)

He's kept interest rates low, inflation low, hospital waiting lists are down (fact), brought in the minimum wage, introduced tax credits for working families, has or is going to abolish the Tory brainchild that was/is the child support agency so it aint all bad news people. By the way we had terrorism on the British mainland for 20 odd years during the 70's and 80's.

OK maybe he has sorted out a bit of peace in Ireland, however now we have Islamic fundamentallists trying to spill our blood as a result of his warmongering.