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To: GST who wrote (105384)	7/14/2003 11:29:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Blair is a man of religious convictions. I don't believe he would break a commitment. <<<<< [On a personal level, how much did Blair's religious convictions factor into his decision-making?] I think Blair's entire political behavior has to be linked to his private religious beliefs. He doesn't talk about his religious beliefs very much but they are fundamental to anything and everything that he does. ... It's certainly true that we have in this alliance of Britain and America an unusual situation, where both the president and the prime minister are people of strong religious conviction. I doubt myself that this is something that they discuss explicitly. It's not really Blair's style to discuss his religious beliefs outside the privacy of his own home and church. Nonetheless, I am sure that in an unspoken way it contributed to a certain affinity between Bush and Blair in that they're both people who in a sense arrive at quite simple conclusions about things; they're men of tremendous moral certainty. ... I'm sure that the fact that they're both religious people, they're people to whom prayer and reading the Gospels matter a great deal, in a way that was probably never articulated, never actually spoken, mattered a great deal. <<<<< 216.239.51.104