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[TroyS]

A friend of mine sent me this quote from Tony Blair, sorry no link but I'll keep looking. He said this yesterday and I only wish our politicians could speak so eloquently. The sad thing is John Kerry calls this staunch ally coerced and bribed. I suppose he would rather have Chirac and France behind him rather than this wonderful prime minister and country.

"Obviously there will be people who have never been convinced about the original decision. But the fundamentals of the situation in Iraq are absolutely clear. You have a government supported by the United Nations. You have massive reconstruction. You've got an attempt to bring democracy to the country and you've got these people trying to stop it. I can understand why people still have a powerful disagreement about the original decision to go to war, but what ever that disagreement, surely we have to stay and see it through. Because the consequences of not doing so is that global terrorism will get a tremendous boost. By contrast, if we succeed and defeat these people and help the Iraqis to get what the Iraqis want, then global terrorism will suffer a defeat... So my point to people is: which side should we be on now? You might have disagreed about the conflict, but there is only one side to be on now, and that's the side of people who are trying to bring Democracy and hope to the country, not trying to plunge it into terror and chaos."

John Kerry isn't fit to shine Tony Blair's shoes...this is how a man talks and acts to lead a country, not like JFK who tries to tear it apart for his own political gain.

[Ohio Voter]

Here is a link to the Guardian Unlimited [UK] with the full quote by Tony Blair.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2004/story/0,14991,1312954,00.html