Dying for Good: Tony Blair and the great fight

Ahh, the charming poodle, Tony Blair. How absolutely charming he can be at the podium, with his upperclassman diction and typical British aloofness!

But when he gets around to speaking to the world press he doesn’t waste any time placing his foot firmly in his mouth and demonstrating his elitist disdain for 3rd world lives.

Aside from his crass and incredible statements about how he feels "grief" for the dead civilians in Lebanon but still says me "must continue what we’re doing for we have no choice"....he threw in a little extra statement which appears to have gone right over the heads of the 4th Estate. This is, of course, not surprising since most of the Washington Press Corps are as fake and inept as the phony Guckert, he of the internet gigalo/porn credentials.

What Tony Blair actually said as almost a casual adide when trying to form his anti-terrorist argument, was this: "Look at the thousands of lives lost in Algeria".

Huh?

Does he know anything about history? Just who WERE the terrorists in the fight for Algerian Liberation? France took over the country in 1830 and held it tenaciously, ostensibly to rid the country of corruption (there was some in the early Barbary Coast pirate days)..until about 1962, when Algeria took back it’s sovereignty. In the years from 1948-56 Algerian nationals fought with great passion against the French occupation troops (approx 100,000 strong at one point), and beat them, forcing them to capitulate!! The French spent years torturing and imprisoning the "insurgents", all the while...like the U.S.in Iraq...claiming moral superiority!

How dare Blair use those thousands of lives in Algeria, lost in the cause of righteous desperation...as examples of the Western fight against terror!