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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98034)	5/12/2003 8:15:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Blair Aide Quits With Tirade By WARREN HOGE She almost quit when we went into Iraq. To be expected. LONDON, May 12 - Clare Short, Britain's secretary for International Development, today became the second person to resign from the cabinet over Iraq policy, ending her six years in government with a surprisingly personal attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons. The immediate cause of her resignation, she said, was Mr. Blair's "betrayal" of his promise to work for United Nations involvement in postwar Iraq and his cooperation in an American campaign to "bully" the United Nations. But she went beyond those disputes over issues to accuse Mr. Blair of abandoning Labor Party values and the policies of his administration in order to further his own obsessive ambition. She assailed Mr. Blair for becoming a "presidential" leader, formulating bad policy in secret with a small group of advisers, forcing it upon Parliament by "diktats" straining party loyalty and undermining public trust. Even given Ms. Short's reputation for feisty outspokenness, legislators who packed the chamber appeared startled at the personal animus in her statement. "To the prime minister," she said, "I would say that he has achieved great things since 1997 but, paradoxically, he is in danger of destroying his legacy as he becomes increasingly obsessed by his place in history." Mr. Blair was not in the House to hear her speech, but Foreign Secretary Jack Straw sat in the front row with a grim expression, and there were audible gasps and intakes of breath from the Labor benches at the ferocity of Ms. Short's comments. REST AT:http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/international/europe/12CND-LOND.html?ei=5062&en=63d095ae67bd85e3&ex=1053403200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=