Is anyone watching Poodle's Press Conference

[malaise]

on BBC International? This is absolute rubbish.

[wtmusic]

1. details? nt

[theHandpuppet]

2. I have to read transcripts

Just the mere sound of his voice makes me physically ill. Care to fill us in?

[malaise]

3. WIll do so in a while

here it is live
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm

Major differences between him and Al Maliki re Lebanon
Poodle says both sides must stop fighting but a long term cease fire is required. Talked about moderate Arabs and Bush/Blair democracy versus the terrorists. AlMaliki says immediate cease fire.

Journalists KOs Poodle with a question about Latin American instability and the Iran-Contra affair - duck, duck, duck. What an evasion.

Al Maliki says violence will backfire for Israel.

add.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Someone asked him about Iran-Contra?

Oh my, what was that about?

[malaise]

14. A Latin American journalist

asked him given the instability in Latin America, what he thought about the Iran-Contra affair. His poodle face was priceless - he ducked faster than a man seeing Cheney with a gun :D and never answered the question.

[dipsydoodle]

4. I'm in the UK

and so am used to seeing him more often. He's exceptionally ill at ease - keeps hesitating and dropping into the venacular. Kept expecting him to say " need to check with George before I answer that question ".

He refused to comment on the question of a moratorium on supply of arms to Israel.

[KoKo]

5. How is public sentiment in GB these days about Blair?

Is it that there are no alternatives that he hasn't been thrown out of office for his joined at the hip compliance with Bush? I hear Gordon Brown has problems...but why hasn't someone else come forward. Are the people in GB as asleep as Americans seem to be?

[dipsydoodle]

9. Pretty much as in the USA

People don't seem to care too much what's occuring outside of their own little world and that's despite the fact we get the honest truth on all of our tv news channels. Only real problem that Brown has got is that he's a Scottish MP and circumstances could possibly make him ineligible - bit of a ruck going on as to whether Scottish MPs should influence England at all now they got their own Parliament . Brown seems to be an honest guy.

I think that one of reasons that Blur hangs on is that he's frightened of what will come out when he lets go of the reins. According to Clare Short, Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to May 2003, the Foreign Office now only do as they are told by Downing Street aka Blur - she said that live on TV yesterday openly refering to Blur as The Poodle.

If Americans are asleep it's only because they are sort of insulated - or were until 9/11 anyway. Since then they seem to have been influenced by fear alone. If the price of oil continues to rise significantly then they've got real nasty shock coming, unrelated to fear , as your rate of inflation climbs. Maybe then they'll wonder why they sat and did nothing while * shafted them.

[KoKo]

11. Thanks for the info....I also wonder if Blair

is concerned with the possibilities of "War Crimes" charges ever coming down on both he and Bush's heads if sentiment changes in both countries.
Blair followed Bush and is complicit if the ME blows because of what they conspired to do together. "Downing Street Memo's and other documents."

Blair may be tied to Bush as their ship sinks in world approval. Sort of like our Repugs here covering for Bush's crimes effectively because the control all three branches of our Govt. Blair seems to have sucessfully muted the criticisms of Clair Short and others...and poor Robin Cook unfortunately died on that hike. Then there's David Kelly unfortunate "suicide."


If it ever all comes out what Bush got Blair into (and maybe Blair was more than willing) then both of them are in deep trouble if the world and their own countrymen decide to pursue it all. :-(

[dipsydoodle]

12. That's what I'm hoping for

Be good to see both of them at The Hague. Doubts are being expressed again about Kelly's suicide or to me more accurate who suicided him.

[malaise]

6. He really was uncomfortable.

He's also catching 'blinking eyes' from W.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Poor Tony just isn't the same anymore

He use to seem quite normal. Now he's nervous and jumpy all the time. He's got that look in his eyes of a man with a haunted soul. Sometimes I almost feel bad for him.

[dipsydoodle]

10. " Sometimes I almost feel bad for him"

Only for a second or two at most - I hope. I think he's despicable and just loved seeing him squirm this afternoon. I reckon he's starting to lose it.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. "He's got that look in his eyes of a man with a haunted soul"

Yes.

Remember this story from 2003?

Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room

A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography:

The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person. There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur.

The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister

The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.

[KoKo]

15. Well...don't know about this but Bush's comment about Blair's toothpaste

at their first Camp David meeting and Blair's pink tie hanging in Bush's face as Bush chomped his bread roll while talking to him, and the many trips Blair seems to be making to visit Bush (coming again later this week) does make one wonder what's going on with Blair. Given the stuff that's swirled around Blair...a man of his age wearing a "pink tie" to the G-8 Summit struck me as a little odd. Although I know the Brits are fairly flamboyant dressers and it's the Ralph Lauren "in color" in the stores...still... And Cheri's odd behavior is well....odd.