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Maggy 26-03-2004 08:49

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=505109

So just who's cynical ploy is this?

Blair?Gaddaffi?The media?


Incog.

Ramrod 26-03-2004 09:06

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The Times has the pictures. Gaddafi offered his hand and Blair tentatively accepted it, grasping it by the fingers. At least shake it properly! How embarrassing :rolleyes:

Bifta 26-03-2004 09:09

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Blair has shaken hands with far worse :D GWB for example.

Julian 26-03-2004 09:14

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They are like 2 peas in a pod, I'm sure they will be very happy together. :rolleyes:


:wavey: Hello.... Blairy....We are over here in the UK, you remember that country where you are supposed to be Prime Minister. How about sorting a few things out here rather than playing the big world ambassador. :td:

Stuartbe 26-03-2004 09:17

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Originally Posted by Julian
They are like 2 peas in a pod, I'm sure they will be very happy together. :rolleyes:


:wavey: Hello.... Blairy....We are over here in the UK, you remember that country where you are supposed to be Prime Minister. How about sorting a few things out here rather than playing the big world ambassador. :td:

Tony Bliair the prime minister :confused: :confused:

I thought or PM was big bird !!!

Julian 26-03-2004 09:21

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Originally Posted by Stuartbe
Tony Bliair the prime minister :confused: :confused:

I thought or PM was big bird !!!


LOL

A measure of his lack of concern for the British people is that while he is gallivanting round the world, if anything was to happen to him, John Prescott would be PM. :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

Maggy 26-03-2004 09:26

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So you think it is just Blair being cynical?Not Gaddaffi or the British media.

Ramrod 26-03-2004 09:34

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All of them.
Blair wants to be remembered as a great statesman, something you don't get to be by running the country well and keeping your nose out of everyone elses.

Julian 26-03-2004 09:48

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It is most definitely blair at it.

How can he attend the memorial service in Spain on one day then shake gadaafi's hand the next day???

He is pondlife and is well suited to his new playmate in libya.

Bifta 26-03-2004 10:07

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Originally Posted by Julian
They are like 2 peas in a pod, I'm sure they will be very happy together. :rolleyes:


:wavey: Hello.... Blairy....We are over here in the UK, you remember that country where you are supposed to be Prime Minister. How about sorting a few things out here rather than playing the big world ambassador. :td:

Aw come on, Libya can do a lot for the UK, like supplying arms and funding to terrorist groups that operate on the mainland. What's next I wonder, tea and crumpets with Saddam Hussain?

punky 26-03-2004 10:20

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I find it amusing how if Blair removes a murderous tyrant dictator by force, there are country-wide protests, civil unrest, etc. So the next time, he manages to get another murderous tyrant dictactor to renounce terrorism, give up his WMD, pay compensation to the Lockerbie victims' families, without even firing a gun, and still he gets it in the neck Just no pleasing some people.

Who cares Gaddafi is only in it for the money, or what some minister says, it is what he does that counts. Also, once Gaddafi is exposed to the wonders of western capitalism, he may even start believing in why he did it.

Ramrod 26-03-2004 10:24

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Originally Posted by punky
I find it amusing how if Blair removes a murderous tyrant dictator by force, there are country-wide protests, civil unrest, etc. So the next time, he manages to get another murderous tyrant dictactor to renounce terrorism, give up his WMD, pay compensation to the Lockerbie victims' families, without even firing a gun, and still he gets it in the neck Just no pleasing some people.

Who cares Gaddafi is only in it for the money, or what some minister says, it is what he does that counts. Also, once Gaddafi is exposed to the wonders of western capitalism, he may even start believing in why he did it.

Good points.

Pierre 26-03-2004 15:40

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We need all the allies in the middle east we can get.

This is an ever changing world and we must be prepared to move with it, even if it means having to suck it up and shake hands with this guy.

If Libya are serious we must give them the BOD. I believe Blair is right to go there and seize this opportunity

neel2k 26-03-2004 19:41

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Originally Posted by Ramrod
The Times has the pictures. Gaddafi offered his hand and Blair tentatively accepted it, grasping it by the fingers. At least shake it properly! How embarrassing :rolleyes:

It said on Breakfast on BBC1 this morning that that is how they shake hands in Lybia.

etccarmageddon 26-03-2004 20:16

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has anyone seen the cartoon in today's sun?


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