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‘Yo Bush!’ Tony Blair Mocked as U.S. Poodle

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Posted on Jul 18, 2006

Responding to Monday’s “open mike” incident in Russia, The Guardian said Blair “all but offers to carry [Condoleezza Rice’s] bags” to the Middle East (Bush denied him), revealing Blair’s subservient role in the relationship. (article, British press reactions)

  • Not to mention the fact that Bush carried on the conversation about one of the most dangerous powder kegs in the world while chewing with an open mouth and barely looking at Blair.

  • Reuters:

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair was roundly mocked as a U.S. poodle on Tuesday after an off-the-cuff chat with President George W. Bush was accidentally broadcast.

    Bush and Blair enjoyed a gossip over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday, unaware that a microphone in front of them was switched on and their words would be relayed around the world.

    Breaking with diplomatic formalities, Bush hailed Blair, his closest European ally, with the words “Yo, Blair.” His solution to the Middle East crisis was that Syria should press Hizbollah to “stop doing this shit.”

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    By George Fondis, July 19, 2006 at 11:51 pm #
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    The idea of the New World Order came into practice in October the 18th 1982 in the Rose Garden.
    On that day President Reagan (he was one of the three governors holed up in down town Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. All three governors became Presidents of the USA - Coincidence or Conspiracy?) signed the Garn-St Germain Depository Act. “All in all” said the President as he set his pen after signing the Bill into law. “I think we have hit the jackpot”. In fact he hit a lot of other things too. On the background George W.Bush “daddy” was presiding to numerous Financial deregulation meetings. Out on the yacht “High Spirits” thjere were a lot of people with very deep pockets. A yacht moored in the shadows of Washington Monument, and a White House filled with ex-Seervicemen from Merrill Lynch,Bechtel Corp.and Halliburton, would be a great fund raising gimmick. So, who needs Osama Bin Ladden? The boat was a floating tax shelter for investors anyway. Why not use it for parties for the people who passed the laws that made it all happen for possible Fraud? 
    In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (shoulder to shoulder, later carried on by Major and Blair) slavishly following Republican Conservative policies, transferredand disposed the Welfare and Security of the nation into Private Hands and lost the nation’s Deposit Insuirance Fund. Thus began the Greatest Financial Fraud Scandals ever in the history of US and Britain.
    A lot of money was involved, and a lot of money is missing, the amount of money missing can buy up countries, and for that kind of money the men in the White House and Whitehall do desperate things!
    Do they Fail to recognize a Crime when they see one?

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    By Mark, July 19, 2006 at 12:06 am #
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    I don’t get why Tony Blair puts up with this. Does Bush have some compromising photos of Blair with a transvestite or a German Shepherd or something?

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    By George Fondis, July 18, 2006 at 9:43 am #
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    What was the meaning of President George W Bush
    when he stated that the United Nations were irrelevant?
    Simply - “I shit on the UN Constitution, and the I am pissing on the heads of its elected members, telling them it’s raining!”

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    By Vietnam Vet, July 18, 2006 at 8:41 am #
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    The stupidity of this nincompoop never ceases. First that asinine “unsolicited massage” of the German head of state, then the talking to Blair with a mouth full of food, using foul language to boot. The man is not only a national disgrace for this nation, he is an international disgrace as well! No small wonder that many of our formally friendly nations (and I refer to the PEOPLE, not the governments) have rejected this dimwit and refer to him as the swaggering, Texas gunslinger, and a warmonger.

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