Originally posted by: Wookie Wedgie
I feel sorry for Blair. The guy is (as I understand it) pretty much like a moderate/liberal here in this country, but he gets it. He gets the problem the Islamofascists present. Just like our Lieberman (also a liberal) gets it, too. Why is this so hard for people to grasp? There is nothing to be gained by being on the side of the terrorists. They give a frick about the liberals defending them in the US. Liberals are tools for the islamofascists. PC sentiments are tools for the terrorists. Its lovely how liberals play right into the terrorists' hands. They love this.

Okay, firstly, Tony Blair does not deserve anyone's pity. Public opinion has turned against him gradually because it has transpired that he has lied to parliament on several occasions, most notably on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Many MPs (and citizens) supported the war until they found out that Blair had deliberately misled them in order to ensure they voted to participate.

Secondly, what's with your love of labels for people? Islamofascists, liberals, etc. And all problems boil down to the struggle of good against evil. It's amazing to me how quickly some people think they can decide who's good and who's bad. WESHALLPRESERVE loves it too, just look at his last post: "Theres Republican, Conservitive, Democrat, Liberal----the commie." Everything has to be simplified, dumbed-down and re-packaged with a nice explanatory label on it!

Thirdly, I, for one, am not in the habit of defending people who kill, for any reason. I think you'd find that most "liberals", as you've pigeon-holed them, do not defend acts of terrorism, whether committed by a religious group or a government or anyone. Such people attack the US and the UK because they refuse to acknowledge that they ever enter a war or tinker about with other countries' governments for anything less than the most pure, the most humanitarian of motives. Utter bullshit. Self-service and arrogance define both countries' approach to foreign affairs and always have done. This doesn't make them worse than any other nation, by the way. It makes them the same. But neither will ever admit it.

Fourthly, I am a resident of the UK. I dislike the policies of the current government and do not vote for people connected with it. I attack the way the UK has conducted it's affairs, both now and in the past. It's my right to do that. I also have a right to attack or defend whomever I choose, so long as I do it legally.

The invasion of Iraq was a criminal act on the part of the governments of the US and the UK and I don't think the people behind those actions should be allowed to get away with it.

I am aware that my rights would be very different in a state run by such as the Taliban or the Ba'athists. I do not defend terrorist actions.

I am not a pathetic retard without any grasp of the facts.

Neither am I an arrogant, self-righteous person prepared to kill or displace or disadvantage anyone to secure a peace through fear of reprisal. I value the life of all human beings because I'm not so blind as to think that I am better than anyone else.

To attack or control people with fear is terrorism.