BLAIR still supports Iraq
By DonSurber
TONY BLAIR gave the new English version of al-Jazeera TV a boost with an interview with David Frost. The Times of London reported “BLAIR admits Iraq is 'pretty much a disaster'.” The key quotes:
“It has, but you see what I say to people is why is it difficult in Iraq? It is not difficult because of some accident in planning, it is difficult because there is a deliberate strategy, al-Qaeda with Sunni insurgents on one hand, Iranian-backed elements with Shia militias on the other, to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace is displaced by the will of the minority for war.”
Hmm. And yet the antiwar crowd claims Iraq has nothing to do with al-Qaeda. And this:
“We are not walking away from Iraq. We will stay for as long as the Government needs us to stay.
“And the reason for that is that what is happening in Iraq, as in Afghanistan, as elsewhere in parts of the Middle East, is a struggle between the decent majority of people, who want to live in peace together, and those who have an extreme and perverted and warped view of Islam, who want to create war. In those circumstances, our task has got to be to stand up for the moderates and the democrats against the extremists and the sectarians. They are testing our will at the moment, and our will has not to be found wanting.”
That is a good summary of what is happening. The United States and its allies took the offense in the war, rather than sit back and see what the terrorists will blow up next.
Sitting around waiting to see what they will blow up next is how you go from the USS Cole to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in less than a year.
By the way, the prime minister did not use the word disaster. The al-Jazeera Web site carried its version of BLAIR admits Iraq 'a disaster' but included this disclaimer:
A Downing Street spokesperson later said BLAIR's views had been misrepresented in the interview, and the UK leader had simply acknowledged the question when he agreed with Frost's suggestion.
"The prime minister does not use the word disaster," the spokesperson said. "What he does is set out that the violence in Iraq is of course hugely regrettable, tragic and very difficult, but that this violence is a result of malicious external intervention, not some planning error three years ago."
It is interesting that the Times report did not include that passage from Downing Street.
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