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Ferre Cannabis Sacrament Minister.


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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: Battered lame ducks meet to protect their place in history |
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Battered lame ducks meet to protect their place in history
From Tom Baldwin in Washington
TONY BLAIR is preparing to fly out to Washington for a “lame duck summit” with President Bush where he will tackle the issue of Iraq, which will probably now define both leaders’ place in history.
It will be his first trip to Washington for almost a year and is a gamble at a time when he and Mr Bush are at their lowest ebb in the opinion polls.
The summit has been pencilled in for late this month but Downing Street sources say that depends on a new Iraqi government of national unity having been formed by then. Such a development, expected in the next few days, would allow the two leaders to claim a breakthrough.
British and US sources say that the two leaders have other pressing issues to discuss, including the nuclear stand-off with Iran and the growing frost in relations with Russia, but Iraq will dominate.
Both men continue to believe that Iraq can eventually become a stable, modern democracy, but only if their successors are willing to “stay the course” by keeping at least some support troops there for several more years.
Much thought has been given to developing a military counter-insurgency strategy, heavily influenced by the relative success of the British Armed Forces, which can be sustained after they have left office. Pentagon advisers now talk about limiting the deaths of US servicemen to “no more than one killed in action a day”.
They are preparing for a substantial withdrawal of up to 50,000 troops by the end of the year, and believe that the remaining force can be kept away from the line of fire by “hunkering down” inside heavily fortified, semi- permanent bases.
Mr Bush could certainly do with some support from Mr Blair, who remains popular in the US and has always articulated the case for war better than he has. On Tuesday the President appeared to cling to the next best alternative by spending several minutes praising the steadfast backing of John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, when he visited Washington.
But Mr Blair will not seek to boost America’s flagging support for the war. “This is not an exercise in backboning,” a British diplomat said.
He will instead deliver a speech suggesting that he arrived at the same conclusion as Mr Bush — on the need to remove Saddam Hussein — from a different direction.
He intends to return to the theme of a 1999 speech in Chicago when he set out a doctrine of humanitarian interventionism.
A close ally said: “Tony feels terribly misunderstood. He desperately wants to explain his foreign policy by putting Iraq in the context of previous interventions such as Kosovo, increasing aid for Africa, supporting the Middle East peace process and his position on climate change.”
Mr Blair has devoted considerable time over the past month to planning the address. It is expected to emphasise the need to reform multilateral organisations, including the UN and the World Trade Organisation.
Friends privately acknowledge that Mr Blair’s political fortunes have never fully recovered from his failure to win a second UN resolution authorising military action against Iraq.
Since then the Prime Minister’s desire to confront his critics has been frustrated by advisers who have urged him to stay away from an issue that they believe is now largely “parked” in Britain.
He has also kept his distance from Mr Bush, in public at least, preferring to speak to him in a weekly video conference instead of face to face.
In the 20 months after the September 11 attacks, Mr Blair visited the US seven times for talks with Mr Bush. But those trips have dried up as both men’s popularity has slumped. Mr Bush was told to stay away from Britain when he visited Europe before last year’s general election, and their last proper bilateral meeting was during Mr Blair’s post-election trip to Washington 11 months ago.
In July 2003 Mr Blair was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, but more than 1,000 days later he still has no plans to collect it from Mr Bush, Downing Street says. No recipient has waited as long to receive the honour since the composer Aaron Copland, by then very elderly, in 1989. Nelson Mandela accepted his in only 56 days.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2185502,00.html
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I love how TimesOnline talks about "Battered lame ducks".
So true.  _________________ █ Please read the Board Rules and Posting, and you
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Don Quixote Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:50 am Post subject: |
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thanx brother Ferre
another great post.
the bit that really worries me is this :-
"Mr Blair has devoted considerable time over the past month to planning the address. It is expected to emphasise the need to reform multilateral organisations, including the UN and the World Trade Organisation. "
for the past month the State Propaganda Bureaux , or press as they are laughingly called , have been lamenting how rediculous the human rights legislation is.
it is portrayed as a joke and a silly set of outdated rules which is getting in the way of justice.
they cite examples such as the high court blocking government attempts to deport 'illeagal immigrants' (people genuinely seeking political assylum) back to countries where they will be tortured and killed by corrupt regimes we put in power.
Blair 's legacy to the world wont be Iraq.
Blairs legacy to the world will be the total crippling of international human rights and the total destruction of civil liberties in England.
he has wiped out legislation which has been law for more than a thousand years (since the Norman conquest in 1066)
he has wiped out laws which were only introduced after widespread civil disobedience and near civil war were on the streets and the total collapse of aristocratic hegemony were imminent .
he has wiped out all the fundamental cornerstones of civil rights , human rights and the rule of civil law.
BLAIR , when your gestapo agents read this i hope the inform you that i said the following :-
"You may think that you have served your masters well.
you may think that , by crippling the U.N. 's ability to intercede in matters of human rights , you have laid the path to a totaly subservient english people.
you may think that by destroying our hard fought and hard won civil liberties , you have somehow affixed chains to our arms.
But , blair , you are wrong.
you will no doubt leave office with a big bag of loot.
you will , no doubt , walk stright out of downing street and into that 'promised directorship' which you have earned 'for services rendered'.
but your children will still have to live in this world.
your plutocratic masters , through you , their willing puppet , have signed the seal of their own downfall.
a people , once free , cannot easily be put back in chains.
You Blair , will be remembered for betraying your country.
You , Blair will be remembered as a traitor."
i am sure your gestapo agents know me well enough if you would like to dicuss this.
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sorry Ferre , but i bet good money that brit gestapo agents regularily monitor our ministry.
i also know that it is in their nature to attempt to penatrate our ministry and plant agents within.
why the f*ck they bother , that i cannot answere.but hey , they're the gestapo , thats what they do.
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PEACE in these 'interesting' times.
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Ferre Cannabis Sacrament Minister.


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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: |
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sorry Ferre , but i bet good money that brit gestapo agents regularily monitor our ministry.
i also know that it is in their nature to attempt to penatrate our ministry and plant agents within. |
We are very aware of this fact brother, The problem for them is that they are in violation of the law, and we are not. _________________ █ Please read the Board Rules and Posting, and you
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aeroplane Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| A close ally said: “Tony feels terribly misunderstood. He desperately wants to explain his foreign policy by putting Iraq in the context of previous interventions such as Kosovo... |
Gee Hr. Blitler (or is Hitblair), maybe you should try getting your head out of your ass because everything you say sounds like shit. One more thing, Kosovo was already in the midst of civil war before intervention, not after. _________________ "Penalties against the possession of a drug
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Don Quixote Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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here is some more sh1te eminating from the horses ass :-
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/09/1428227
http://gnn.tv/headlines/9108/Blair_attacks_human_rights_law
yep.blair must take away all our human right to protect our human rights !!
its like a doctor saying he must cut off his patients head with an axe to cure his headache.
it is a measure of how stupid , ignorant and easily fooled the british have become that most people think this makes sense.oh well.i suppose that is what you get after a thousand years of xenophobia and inbreeding !
most english people are too concerned about "all them bloody foreigners coming over here nicking all our jobs and houses".(this is the response i got from an englishman for even mentioning human rights.)
this is how you sell any stupid shit law to us english. tell them its to protect them from those 'bloody foreigners' who are manipulating the human rights law.
you can sell us any shit as long as you wrap it up in racism..thats all it takes to fool your average , turnip munching half-wit over here.moraly , we are way back in the dark ages.first chance i get , i am outa here !
sorry about this acidic post .i just have a low tolerance of xenophobia , racism and nazism in general.time to emigrate i think.
PEACE.
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aeroplane Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| sorry about this acidic post .i just have a low tolerance of xenophobia , racism and nazism in general.time to emigrate i think. |
No worry, brother DQ. And thanks for the links.
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By the by, anybody else here think that maybe they saved Hitler's sperm and Georgie and Bliar are his bastard sons.... or is it just me???  _________________ "Penalties against the possession of a drug
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Brother Adam Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Don Quixote, nobody around here is going to chastise you for telling the truth. _________________ -Brother Adam (we are all one family)
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IntrepidEZJ Cannabis Sacrament Minister

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Just take the soma........
It's fine. Kick back. Relax. Your government will protect you.
That horse **** tastes like syrup. Thank you sir.
May I have another? |
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