What is your opinion on an apology by Mr Blair?
815391
WTF?! It makes absolutely NO sense for people to apologize for what their ancestors did! Where's the logic? How bloody stupid can it get?\n\nBy the way, one of my ancestors was William the Conqueror, and I apologize for what he and the other Normans did to the Anglo-Saxons...NOT!!!
560943
Why wouldn't he? Prime Minister Blair is a guest of our country, as well as a guest of our President and First Lady.  Was Prime Minister Blair a "poodle" when he was a guest of President Clinton, and when he was taken to dinner or guest at a State Dinner?  I won't even dignify most of the trashy posts to this question, except to say that what I have read so far is a poor reflection on who ever wrote it.  Good thing this is all anonymous.
564279
i think you should get back to him , Do not apologise and tell him that you are sorry blah blah  because he might take advatage of the situation.
971252
This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.\n\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.\n\nAnd Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.\n\nWe will not receive them, of course.\n\nThis president never apologizes.\n\nNot to the troops.\n\nNot to the people.\n\nNor will those henchmen who have echoed him.\n\nIn calling him a “stuffed suit,” Sen. Kerry was wrong about the press secretary. \n\nMr. Snow’s words and conduct, falsely earnest and earnestly false, suggest he is not “stuffed,” he is inflated.\n\nAnd in leaving him out of the equation, Sen. Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Sen. John McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.\n\nHe rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.\n\nOnly, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry’s head came in a context even more disturbing.
438867
Yes. Sometimes I think I should apologies to a girl I used to go to school with. I left school yrs ago so their r no chances of seeing her to apologies. I am sorry for being mean we do stupid things when we're kids. Its weird coz she wasn't a nice person her self, seemed like she thought she was better than everyone else and she was really really weird used to touch people and do strange stuff and people including me were mean to her coz of that. But if I could go back. I would not have been nasty to her to her. Probably would have just ignored her. But I'm sorry I was un necessarily mean to her. Also I am rude to my Mum sometimes which is very wrong.
420693
the single worst leader of the uk in my life time!\n\nno-one has done more to crush the working man and support the rich in the last 35 years.\n\nyes i am only 35 years old but political history is important.\n\nboring sometimes!\n\nbut important.\n\ntony blair is not great but compared to her he is ok.
943719
I agree wholeheartedly. Whether or not Bush is doing a good job, and he isn't, he should be the least of Britain's concern. Last I heard, Tony Blair wasn't any better, so they need not complain about our government. Plus, we're actually being affected. They have no idea personally what it feels like to have a man like Bush in power.
504856
The reshuffle was instigated way before Prescott's and Clarke's miseries. It wouldn't have helped just to sack Prescott (which Blair didn't anyway) - Blair NEED to do something on education and the NHS, and he MUST do something on foreign affairs and Europe - hence the major reshuffle!
285531
I feel like I was betrayed by Blair (ok, technically, he's not there to serve me as an American, but...).  I didn't expect much from Bush but Blair was supposed to be a good guy-- what a disappointment!
1016274
I'm sorry can you elaborate?
806078
oh yes. and i believe cameron was halfway through asking if it was wrong to ask the pm questions and he got cut off again. is this democracy?
788424
Lady, my heart goe's out to you , I am so sorry about these things , but, when you pray tonight before yo go to bed please ask god to forgive America and Britain as they are the ones to blame for the hear takes you folks are having now same in Rhodesia, America and Britain wasn't happy until they forced south Africa and Rhodesia to relinquish power to the blacks, every one had plenty to eat and a lawful society and the Brits and American politicians could not bear to see that and had to be nosing into some ones Else's affairs , so now these countries have a Communist gov, just what our politicians wanted , now there is no law and order nor food except for just the rich, even the blacks are starving, America will be in the same situation before long , and they probable deserve it,Britain is already lost so is France, America is next, our people won't get off of their lazy asses and tell our politicians to nose out of other peoples business and get America sheltered before it is to late,\nI do want to apologize for my country , even tho it is a little late, and don't think it was the people ,and for the ignorant Americans it is against the law for a white to own a gun in south Africa or Rhodesia
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He has no choice. At this point, Blair showing anything less than 101% support for the police would completely destroy their credibility. We'd see attacks on officers, and perhaps even large riots.\n\nBest thing to do is to publicly smooth relations between police and public, while privately trying to sort out the gigantic mess the police force is obviously in.
612327
What makes you think this? What is the evidence of his being poor at organisation? Why would you you want him to run a piss up in a country? It might be entertaining for a while, but it wouldn't sustain the business of State. \n\nIf you ask considered questions you'll get considered responses. For some sort of answer to your present question try this:\n\nIs the country worse off than it was in 1997? If so how? \n\nIs Blair an improvement on John Major? If not, why not?\n\nHow is the economy doing under Labour relative to a similar number of years of economic management under the Tories? Better or worse? I think you already know the answer.\n\nIs employment up or down since the last Tory Government? \n\nIs crime up or down since the last Tory Government?\n\nAre NHS waiting lists longer under Labour's management?\n\nBlair is slippery and slick. He's a survivor and the consummate politician. But underneath all that there is a genuine conviction politician, concerned about the welfare and wellbeing of the people of UK and around the World. \n\nBlair got it seriously wrong over Iraq and this sadly will be his legacy. The good stuff will be forgotten under the mess of the unjust and improper British invasion of a sovereighn country on the most dubious of grounds. That is the issue about Blair.
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It's my country - and I love it.\n\nBut I hate what it has become in the eyes of the world. through Blair's stupidity\n\nHOW can anyone with a brain respect Blair? Bush's little lapdog? Desperate for his place in history, no matter how many people have to die?\n\nAssume the poster who hates imperialism also hates the US?\n\nBTW Simo - what's YOUR answer? You're in uniform in your pic - don't think I don't support the troops in places like Iraq and Afgahistan - I just don't think you should have been sent.\n\nASKSULEMAN is an idiot - it was the US who forced the UK into the invasion of Iraq. He cites a lot of sources, but I doubt he's read any of them.
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No, it was not a real apology. Like he was sorry he got caught offending ppl. but not sorry about what he said.\n\nJ.Kerry the leper. I bet he is surprised his fellows didn't take up for him.
920149
Treat them nicely...?\nSaying "sorry" doesn't do/mean anything if you don't prove it.