Compliant and subservient:Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair

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Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behaviour," he told The Sunday Telegraph.

"I think that more than any other person in the world the Prime Minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington - and he has not. I really thought that Tony Blair, who I know personally to some degree, would be a constraint on President Bush's policies towards Iraq."

In an exclusive interview, President Carter made it plain that he sees Mr Blair's lack of leadership as being a key factor in the present crisis in Iraq, which followed the 2003 invasion - a pre-emptive move he said he would never have considered himself as president.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/27/nblair27.xml

[MADem]

1. Wow, that is pretty rough stuff

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behaviour," he told The Sunday Telegraph.


(No doubt the Telegraph was overjoyed to get that quote...but damn, it's true)

[Just-plain-Kathy]

2. I love Jimmy Carter!!!

I often wonder if Blair was promised a position with the Carlyle Group.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. Corporate media doesn't give him the coverage he deserves.

[Uncle Roy]

4. So he's disappointed in BLAIR, is he?

Because Blair failed to be a moderating influence on Bush's behavior????

It's the job of the American government and the American political system and the American media and the American public to be a moderating influence on the behavior of the American president.

These institutions all failed totally, and pointing fingers at Tony Blair won't begin to fix the problem.

Compliant and subservient?? You don't have to go all the way to London to find that.

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" -Luke 6:41