a better title would have been 'the road X'............

Tony Blair, not only violates the spirits of those whose slaughter he has enabled, but savages the very humanity of 'the living.' We, who have to continue to co-exist on the same planet with his malefic presence.

So much so, that Blair's very 'being' even makes the survivors themselves feel 'dead,' for in truth, in continuing to helplessly tolerate the unconscionable, we really have 'died,' in ways far worse than the actual victims of his crimes: 'We' have no choice but to acknowledge that a world where Tony Blair is feted at elegant 'book parties,' as a celebrity is indeed, 'our' world.

The bitterness is overwhelming in its finality and cannot be dispelled, for Tony Blair is an abyss. No matter his 'proximity,' he draws us down into the 'inhuman' world.

"People do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void."
–(Maximilien Robespierre)

"Father," he asked, "are the rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?" 'Yes, Illusha," I said. "There are no people on Earth stronger than the rich." "Father he said, "I will get rich, I will become an officer and conquer everybody, the Tsar will reward me, I will come back here then no one will dare..." Then he was silent and his lips still kept trembling. "Father, he said, "what a horrid town this is."
–(Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov.")

Only the survivors are dead. Every breath that Tony Blair draws serves to cancel or despoil our lives in ways we might not be aware of.

"During his interview on RTE, Blair warned that Iran was now one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam. It must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon, even if that meant taking military action, he said."

Tony B. Liar is STILL lying in order to push more plunder - MORE WAR!!! The so call middle east peace envoy!!! And the country that HAS ABIDED by the NPT, and has never invaded nor threaten to invade any country, is to be invaded and its oil reserves plundered by countries that regularly lie and destroy other countries on the basis of those lies. Swine! Untermensch! F#$%^&*@ S#$%!!!!!

Extraordinary, the lowly Irish that early european invaders of america disparaged, have the guts to protest one of the biggest british terrorists on earth, while here in america, most just are waiting for that magical moment when everything turns back to normal, whatever in the hell that is.

Thank you to all who protested and made a fuss so as to get some media coverage. Tony Blair along with all those war mongering sociopaths that lied to the people about the case for war should be tried in public with us all looking on and then once we find them guilty we can watch them beg for forgiveness.

The problem if you have an independent public inquiry into something like this is you will divert all their energy and attention into trying to answer the questions that come up in the inquiry.
--- Tony Blair rejecting calls for a public inquiry onto the July 7th Bombing, as reported by the BBC, May 1, 2007, Pressure grows for a 7/7 inquiry.

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him.
--- George Orwell, 1984

"The US would put its full weight behind efforts to get another resolution and would 'twist arms' and 'even threaten'. But he had to say that if ultimately we failed, military action would follow anyway. …The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."
--- George W. Bush, minutes of George Bush and Tony Blair's pre-war meeting, January 2003

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
--- Excerpt from the Downing Street Memo, SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY, To: DAVID MANNING, From: Matthew Rycroft, July 23, 2002. Director of SIS (aka MI6), Sir Richard Dearlove, identified as 'C' in the meeting minutes, heads the UK's foreign intelligence service

“I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian. But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan.”
--- Dick Cheney, Chief Executive of Halliburton (1998)

“To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11.”
--- Tony Blair comments to the Commons liaison committee, (London) Times, July 17, 2002

“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to psychology. There must be the portrayal of external menace. This involves the development of a nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice.”
--- John Foster Dulles

“Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.”
--- Zbigniew Brzezinski, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives", page 211 (1997), member Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Advisor to President Carter and adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush the First

“The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America’s engagement in World War 11 largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.”
--- Zbigniew Brzezinski, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives", pages 24-25 (1997), member Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Advisor to President Carter and adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush the First

“But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
--- Zbigniew Brzezinski, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives", page 35 (1997), member Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Advisor to President Carter and adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush the First

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
--- Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, Page 51, A Report of The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. Among the 25 founding members of The Project for the New American Century whom signed the Statement of Principles in 1997, were Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

“There appears to be general agreement concerning the need to transform the U.S. military into a significantly different kind of force from that which emerged victorious from the Cold and Gulf Wars. Yet this verbal support has not been translated into a defense program supporting transformation ... the 'critical mass' needed to effect it has not yet been achieved. One may conclude that, in the absence of a strong external shock to the United States-a latter-day 'Pearl Harbor' of sorts-surmounting the barriers to transformation will likely prove a long, arduous process.”
--- Andrew Krepinevich, Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, March 3, 1999

"We all know that history is filled with instances where people were surprised. There were plenty of signals, plenty of warnings, plenty of cautions. But they weren't taken aboard. They didn't register. They weren't sufficient to cause a person to act on those. We know that the thing that tends to register on people is fear, and we know that that tends to happen after there's a Pearl Harbor, tends to happen after there's a crisis. And that's too late for us. We've got to be smarter than that. We've got to be wiser than that. We have to be more forward-looking."
--- Secretary of Defense-designate Donald Rumsfeld, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee as reported by CNN, January 11, 2001

“History is replete with instances in which warning signs were ignored and change resisted until an external, "improbable" event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action. The question is whether the US will be wise enough to act responsibly and soon enough to reduce US space vulnerability. Or whether, as in the past, a disabling attack against the country and its people—a "Space Pearl Harbor"—will be the only event able to galvanize the nation and cause the US Government to act.”
--- From the report of the Commission to Assess US National Security Space Management and Organization. Donald Rumsfeld was the chairman of this commission immediately before becoming Secretary of Defense in January of 2001. This "Rumsfeld Commission," as it was informally known, published its report in the second week of January 2001.

...because the most serious constraint on current policy is lack of imagination. An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people and/or disrupted the necessities of life for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in America’s history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented for peacetime and undermine Americans’ fundamental sense of security within their own borders in a manner akin to the 1949 Soviet atomic bomb test, or perhaps even worse. Constitutional liberties would be challenged as the United States sought to protect itself from further attacks by pressing against allowable limits in surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and the use of deadly force. More violence would follow, either as other terrorists seek to imitate this great "success" or as the United States strikes out at those considered responsible. Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a "before" and "after." The effort and resources we devote to averting or containing this threat now, in the "before" period, will seem woeful, even pathetic, when compared to what will happen "after."
---Catastrophic Terrorism:
Elements of a National Policy By Ashton B. Carter, John M. Deutch and Philip D. Zelikow
A Report of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century, A Project of the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/visions/publication/terrorism.htm
...............Philip D. Zelikow would later be the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. From Wikipeadia:In Rise of the Vulcans (Viking, 2004), James Mann reports that when Richard Haass, a senior aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell and the director of policy planning at the State Department, drafted for the administration an overview of America’s national security strategy following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Dr. Rice, the national security advisor, "ordered that the document be completely rewritten. She thought the Bush administration needed something bolder, something that would represent a more dramatic break with the ideas of the past. Rice turned the writing over to her old colleague, University of Virginia Professor Philip Zelikow." This document, issued on September 17, 2002, is recognized as a significant document in the Bush administration doctrine of preemptive war.

It appears the eggs missed the vile Blair. What a waste of perfectly good eggs!

Clearly there is a call for technology here in the form of a "Gatling" type egg launcher similar to the GAU-8 Avenger on A-10's that spews radioactive DU rounds all over Iraq and Afghanistan. The technical issues here are a mechanism to handle and accelerate the eggs gently enough to avoid breakage while still overcoming the issue of sufficient range to go over the heads of any protective officialdom.

It would also be beneficial to augment the lethality by locating a source of rotten eggs.

I am personally not in favour of a shoe launcher since shoes are heavier and could cause property damage plus their flight characteristics are so erratic. Perhaps a secondary sub-munition platform could scoop rotten tomatoes from a tub and fling them -or perhaps choice articles from a compost?

Have the Greek protesters been subdued? they have fallen off the Media radar.

Bring America Back !!!!

**Kudos to the Dublin boys for the peltin' Blair so richly deserves==heres hoping some of the more rotten ones found
a home on Blair's kisser==the kisser he used for 8 years to suck up to King "W:'s ass.

**Since Blair's memoires just have to be diseased with his
lies about the Iraq invasion, as are 'Bush's', the now
patented 'shoe greeting' is also highly appropriate. Smelly bad ol' shoes and sneakers, wreaking with foul odors just
like the global predator policies of Blair and Bush.

**Tks to CD and The Guardian for covering this comeupification in Ireland. Those Dubliners still know how
to deliver some solidarity in proving their points.

'[Blair] tried to convince the audience that he acted against the one million people who marched in opposition to the war because he could not take decisions "based on those that shout most"'.

So how does Blair defend himself for his decision to ignore intelligence from respected, independent, international agencies and believe the hype from a newly created, inexperienced and highly flawed Iraq Survey Group?

Sometimes a million shouting people should be heeded rather than a few narcissistic zionists hiding behind Secret Service Agents.

circa 1953... iran... democratic election... decides to nationalize oil company... which is... predecessor to BP... british petroleum... cant have that! overthrow... and install shah... 25 years of brutality... 1979... blowback... islamic revolution... 2010... still gotta get iran...

sorta parallel... late 70's... saddam hussein comes on the scene... brutal inside and nearby to iran... kuwait... and... has all that damn oil... even thinking of starting a new oil bourse... trading in euros... can't have that either!

afghanistan's got the key to the caspian sea basin... 9/11... PNAC called for it... probably even... oh ok.. i won't go there...

dubbyah and blair knew their mandate... get the oil. just like truman and the sauds in 1940 something... keep the oil on and we'll see you not get hitler... then they gave palestine to the jews...

we're (the west) gonna get all that oil and gas and use it and fuck it until it runs out...

it's generational. the planet of course will be a smog filled - oil soaked ocean - and land devoid of anything more than burned out ecosystems.

mission (continuing to be) accomplished. whatever it is they're accomplishing.

DUBLIN! He had to have his book signing in Dublin. What an idiot...His book will now be referrred to as "Portrait of the Fascist as an Insane Old Man."

I do think James Joyce would find it amusing! I love being Irish!

"London Evening Standard 9/10/09

"Speaking at St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Rowan Williams (Archbishop) attacked the former prime minister for spin tactics before the 2003 invasion and ignoring the human cost of war."

"After the service Peter Brierley, whose son Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley, 28, was killed in March 2003, refused to shake Mr Blair's hand, saying: “You've got blood on it.”

Mr Blair was ushered away and afterwards Mr Brierley, from West Yorkshire, said: “I believe Tony Blair is a war criminal. I can't bear to be in the same room as him. I can't believe he's been allowed to come to this reception.”

The service was attended by hundreds of veterans, many still bearing the signs of their injuries, together with the families of the 179 troops and civilian workers who died in Iraq. They heard Dr Williams praise the work of the Armed Forces and civilian staff."

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"Further :

This site....taken from 'The Age' Melbourne, Australia... shows Blair in an interview saying Iraq DID have wmd (we know he did, but not at the time Iraq was attacked).

AND - to say, the evil little man, that Iraq would ATTACK THE USA (!!!) with atomic weapons, if it got such weapons, so it was the right thing to back Bush - and - if we 'let' Iran get some, IT would attack the usa....- tends to show how insane this man has become.

No country is going to attack the USA with nuclear weapons, of course. There are other ways... that is not one of them.

If you were English, you would cringe. He is such a (lying) Little Lord Fauntleroy. !

http://www.theage.com.au/world/former-army-chief-slams-blair-and-brown-20100905-14w0p.html?autostart=1

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stardust :

"DUBLIN! He had to have his book signing in Dublin. What an idiot...His book will now be referrred to as "Portrait of the Fascist as an Insane Old Man."

I do think James Joyce would find it amusing! I love being Irish!"
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"It is believed he chose Ireland for his only live interview since his memoirs' publication because he felt he would get a better hearing because of the peace he secured in Northern Ireland."

He secured : PEACE in NORTHERN IRELAND... what????? What a fool... ! He mustn't have the vaguest notion about Northern Ireland and the Orange and the Green!

13th July 2010

"The aerial footage shows more than 100 people confronting PSNI officers in the Ardoyne area.
The Chief Constable in Northern Ireland has said the cost of policing Monday's violence will run into millions of pounds.

Rioters attacked police in several nationalist areas after parades by the loyalist Orange Order."

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"he could not take decisions "based on those that shout most"."

instead, he made decisions based on what offered the most profit.

http://www.ryanhartman.wordpress.com

stop press:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_britain_blair

"HelpUsObi 1 September 6th, 2010 10:22 am

If you think things are as bad now as during the Troubles before 1998 then you have no idea what you're talking about."

Who said things ARE as bad now as during The Troubles? For one of many reasons.. One being Americans with half a drop of Irish blood in them sent money over to help the IRA. Maybe you should address your remarks about 'not knowing what they were 'talking about' to them.

I said Blair did NOT bring peace to Northern Ireland and quoted "The Chief Constable in Northern Ireland has said the cost of policing Monday's violence will run into millions of pounds.

Rioters attacked police in several nationalist areas after parades by the loyalist Orange Order."

You say : :.................................................
"The parade season always is incendiary but the road to peace isn't over yet."

Exactly. So that... Blair did NOT bring peace to the Six Counties..

Which was my contention.

I know Ireland very well. I should do.

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