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Titolo: Il cagnolino blair torna di nuovo dal padroncino bush

Blair returns to U.S. to say farewell to Bush
By Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers
George Bridges/MCT
British Prime Minister Tony Blair. 
WASHINGTON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has paid a high price for
his friendship with President Bush, but he'll still be back at the White
House this week to say goodbye to his wartime ally. 
It's likely to be a bittersweet parting for two leaders who will be
forever linked by the Iraq war. Their dream of remaking the Middle East
has turned into a nightmare. Their popularity has evaporated. Their place
in history hinges on the outcome of the war that forged their unlikely
friendship. 
Blair's decision to step down next month leaves Bush alone on the world
stage to defend his Iraq policies without the help of his more eloquent
partner. After welcoming Blair to the White House Wednesday evening, Bush
will host his guest at a farewell question-and-answer session with
reporters on Thursday. 
Blair is far more popular in the United States than he is in his own
country, where he has been pilloried for his close ties to the unpopular
American president. Assessments of his 10 years in office praise him for
revitalizing the British economy, improving education and health care, and
finding a peaceful solution to the bloody religious feud in Northern
Ireland. 
"But, of course, there is really only one issue which will scar history's
view of Tony Blair: Iraq," the Daily Mail editorialized last week. "What
he did was to order British troops into an unlawful war against the wishes
of the United Nations, our European allies and a majority of people in
this country. And to order it on a lie." 
In a recent interview with the BBC, Blair acknowledged that he would be
much better off politically if he were to declare that he was "having
nothing to do with George Bush." 
Yet Blair has never wavered from his pledge to stand with Bush on Iraq. He
said his commitment to the Anglo-American alliance - the "special
relationship," as it's known in diplomatic circles - was sealed by the
terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. 
"I've never had any doubt, since September the 11th, that our place was,
as I said at the time, shoulder to shoulder with America. . . . I've never
had any problem with that," he told NBC's Brian Williams Tuesday, on the
eve of his latest Washington visit. "I think it'll be a very dark day for
my country when we do have a problem with it." 
On the surface, the two leaders are a mismatched pair - a British
intellectual from the liberal side of the political spectrum and a
rough-edged conservative who relishes his Texas roots. Aides on both sides
of the Atlantic had low expectations when they met for the first time in
February 2001, about a month after Bush took office. 
"The rap on Blair was that he was Bill Clinton's best friend," said Ari
Fleischer, Bush's first White House press secretary. "Who would have
guessed that a conservative like George Bush and a Labor liberal like Tony
Blair would have such a similar world view?" 
Fleischer said the two hit it off immediately by plunging into a
businesslike discussion of international threats. From the start, they saw
eye-to-eye about the potential threat from Iraq, although Blair pressed
Bush to exhaust diplomacy before resorting to war. 
Some skeptics view the Bush-Blair alliance as a marriage of convenience,
cemented by Blair's desire to align Britain with the world's superpower. 
"Blair is a shrewd calculator," said Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at
the New America Foundation, a Democratic-leaning think tank. "I think
Blair has faked a lot of his relationship with Bush. With Clinton, I don't
think it was fake at all." 
Presidential adviser Dan Bartlett said Bush chafes at critics who've
labeled Blair a White House lap dog. 
"I've heard the president say, `People think I say, `Jump,' and he says,
`How high?' The reality is we always jump together," Bartlett said. "The
decision to go to war, the decision to commit troops, takes it to another
level. They've forged a very special relationship, both personal and
professional." 
Bush and Blair sealed their alliance in September 2002, about six months
before the Iraq invasion. In a meeting at Camp David, the presidential
retreat in Maryland, Bush agreed to Blair's request to seek U.N. approval
for military action. Blair agreed that British troops would join the
invasion. 
In a later interview with journalist Bob Woodward, Bush called it "the
cojones meeting," using the Spanish term for testicles as a tribute to
Blair's commitment. 
When Blair announced last week that he would step down on June 27, Bush
praised the prime minister as "a man who kept his word, which is sometimes
rare in the political circles I run in." 
Blair insists that he has no regrets, even knowing now that Iraq didn't
have weapons of mass destruction. 
"I would make the same decision to remove Saddam," he told NBC. "All these
questions about judgment and legacy and all the rest, I leave that for
other people." 
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 Blair returns to U.S. to say farewell to Bush
Commovente.
Namib 

 Commovente che le due zitelle di IPI siano cosi' gelose...
tu e ? (per il fatto che non vi ha portato con lui a porgere a Bush, I
suppose)
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 suppose)
Omofobo bagnaschiano.
Am.

 Omofobo bagnaschiano.
omofobo ci sarai tu, pagliaccio .
Il tuo porgere è solo frutto del servilismo , dei piu' squallidi, non
di altre cose.

 a studio... E suoneremo il citofono...
come si dice in questi casi ? ah, vieni avanti cretino.
E nel tuo caso è calzante al 100%
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 quand'e' che non trombi somaroide?
ma mi spieghi perche' dovrei avere una cognata cubana, mentecatto inglese
alla mosley?
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 probabile.
ROTFL!
grazie per fornire a gratis tutte queste dimostrazioni di tua alta
cretineria sul ng.

 Ma potrei magari averlo letto in rete, quien sabe?
cioè cosa avresti letto in rete?
Ah, che ridicolo omuncolo il porgi degli amichetti di Pat Buchanan! 
E Mosley insiste nel volersi far riconoscere da tutti, ma proprio tutti,
come un cretino.
Contento lui.
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