Tony Blair: Surrender monkey
It’s becoming apparent that nobody let Tony Blair know that the War on Terrorism is forever. Did he not truly understand his BFF relationship with George W. Bush? That’s Best Friends Forever, even when Bush treats you like his bitch.
UK sets Iraq pullout timetable
LONDON, England (CNN) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to withdraw nearly half of his country’s 7,200 troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, according to media reports.
Wednesday’s expected announcement comes after Blair on Sunday declared that the British mission in Basra in southern Iraq — codenamed “Sinbad” — had been “completed” and “successful.”
Blair told the BBC’s Sunday AM program that British troops were increasingly playing a back-up role as Iraqi forces took on “the main frontline control of security within the city.”
“It is absolutely true, as we have said for months, that as the Iraqis are more capable down in Basra of taking control of their own security we will scale down,” said Blair.
“The issue is the operation that we have been conducting in Basra is now complete…And it has been successful as an operation and as a result there has been reconstruction that has come in behind it and we have been able to make real progress.”
This is rapidly becoming a world of surrender monkeys. The warmongers have no worries for the foreseeable future, of course. Bush is a complete dead-ender on this one. Provided he or his family doesn’t actually have to fight, he’s riding this one to the end.
–WKW
February 27th, 2007 at 6:42 am
What’s remarkable is the neocons over at NRO and Weekly Standard blame incompetency as if America could have actually reconstructed a nation in its image. They want to try it again!
Bush at least pretended to be more of a conservative in 2000; he said he opposed intervening in foreign affairs. I want to say he opposed our involvement in Serbia, but I’m not certain. Once elected either the real Bush surfaced or the neocons brainwashed him :\
Btw, does Labour have a replacement for Blair? I don’t follow British politics, but I’ve heard Blair’s the best they’ve got.