Once merely messianic, Blair is now unhinged

[donsu]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24392-1879986,00.html


Identity cards will not make us safer. That is the view of Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, speaking in Birmingham last week. That opinion must have earned her the prime minister’s contempt. He likes to cite support from the security services or top policemen each time he devises a proposal to limit our historic liberties.

The sniffy response from No 10 was that Rimington was a private individual who was entitled to her opinion. It was a stupid way to describe one who had spent her career defeating terrorism. Her intervention further weakened the government’s flimsy case. Its ID cards bill got a further mauling in the Lords.

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Blair’s problem is not that people have a distrust of slippery politicians, nor merely that they are fed up with his government’s spin and sleaze. The difficulty is rather that the prime minister has shown that we should rely on him least on what matters most: national security.

When he devised the dodgy dossier on Iraq and led us to believe that Saddam could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, he sacrificed credibility. He has been damaged further by the claim from Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington, that he could have secured a delay to the American plan for war against Iraq. The search for WMD could have gone on for longer. The charge has come at a bad moment for No 10.
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it's like a virus, a corruption virus

or DU poison.

I.D. cards

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. well boo hoo.....

the p.m. hitched his wagon to bushco, and now he will be run over the cliff with them. i had a huge respect for pm blair before he got into bed with this corrupt white house. he has lost my respect & any credibility he may have once had. the sad part is that the Labour Party will suffer right along with him.