Blair Speaks

To be fair to what has become the wrong side of the war, here is Tony Blair's speech opening the Iraq debate yesterday in Parliament. In a very long-winded, but very eloquent, oration he basically says that, now that the British troops are in Iraq, it would be embarrassing to bring them home.

You know, if Bush had Blair's conviction and speaking skills, he probably could have convinced me and the rest of the world to overthrow Saddam. However, by forcing everything down our respective throats and telling us how he's going to do it his way (the U.N. be damned), in a way the illiterate neighborhood bully would, he's alienated nearly everyone. Too bad for Blair, who's receiving unfathomable flack for being such a great friend and supporter of the US government at the expense of his political career. I wish I had even a fraction of Blair's courage.