Former PM TONY BLAIR works the crowd outside Letterman Show

[JMR83]

Fag with AIDS

[mc0558]

@blatantboy86 And sold our boys to Bush.

[mc0558]

@PokerPlum Is that why we went to war--to save the poor Iraqi people from Saddam? We went to war because Bush and Cheney were fanatically intent upon it. Blair had sold out to Bush wholly and completely, so he lied to the British people to get them to do what Bush wanted. That is why we went to war! And the Iraqis suffered terribly in that war. Blair has the blood of thousands of people on his hands but is living it up in America and cares not a fig. Awful man!

[mc0558]

@darkstar1345a I supported the miners, but I know many branches of the miner's union itself that didn't. Arthur Scarsgill was an absolute nut case. But still I supported them and gave regular contributions to their strike fund. I am not a Tory and certainly not a Thatcherite! However, voting for the Labour Party is not a joyeous option; it's the only option and that only just.

[saraj12]

Tony Blair what a geezer!

[BuFuMAV4ICK]

BRING BACK BLAIR.... Britain was a better place with him in charge...

[mc0558]

@BuFuMAV4ICK  Back? Pray God, No! Let him live and die in Babylon with the people he sold his soul to.

[mc0558]

@BuFuMAV4ICK Tell that to the parents who lost sons or to the soldiers who were injured in totally unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

[onisac50]

QUICK QUESTION.IF BLAIR BELIEVED SADDAM HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THEN HOW DID HE KNOW HE WOULDT FIRE THEM AT THE TROUPS AND KILL 1000s OF THEM, OR FIRE THEM INTO ISREAL AND WIPE IT OFF THE MAP?MAKES YOU THINK EH?

[mc0558]

@onisac50 He didn't believe it. He knew all along that Saddam had no wmds. He just went along with Bush. Iraq was supposed to be a walk over. And now he is getting his payback from the Bushes--high paying jobs in the US, where Blain's son acually works for an ultra right wing Congressman. Let the traitor stay there!

[JMR83]

Why do so many people in the USA love him so much?

[texas224]

@JMR83 Because Tony Blair in the United States reminds them of Margaret Thatcher.

[JMR83]

@texas224

And how?

[mc0558]

@texas224 Blair=Thatcher. But the difference is, Blair works both sides of the street. He talks the big "progressive" line--the leader of the workers, and all the while pursues right wing social, economic policies. His ministries were indistinguishable from her's. Blair is one of whose those creatures whose his soul is for sale to the highest bidder. That would be Bush Jr.

[DTL41]

I miss him in office..

[mashhh]

The look on the blonde bodyguard's face is priceless!

[MarkB1ngham]

string him up string him up string him u-u-u-p!!!

[TheTootitoot]

I'll never forgive this man for taking the Labour party, the party I grew up to respect and the party of my family, and turning it inside out, against its basic socialist values.

[lostpianist]

There are several possibilities, he will be disgraced in the UK forever and make his life in the US, or in 30 years time when Iran and North Korea no longer exist he will be knighted and everyone will be like "lol".

[radmorad]

fu+++ng english maniacs................i need my wife!! i am not marrying your girls (a bitch is no good for me!)...never! because i am not a racist like you!! english home office = racism

I AM ALWAYS HAPPY IN SPITE OF YOUR ENGLISH CRAZY LAWS!!!! :D i will get another lovely wife and you..you will die with your poison and hatred!!!! hatred and racism are yours. KEEP THEM!!!! we are full of love and mercy! i am so so so so so so soo so so so so so so so so so so so so so so soooooo PROUD :)

[elelinor]

he did not jump ship gordon brown wanted his job the labour party wanted him out he got the knife in the back i wish he was still in power not everyone hates him.

[richyboy721]

In my opinion I think TB was charismatic, a good leader of his party and a good statesman on the world stage but much of his time in office was style over substance. Loads of posturing, soundbites,spin, and vile babykissing whilst he was systematically destroying the nation.

I personally am glad to see the back of him. Gordon Brown maybe totally inept, but at least he is not a transparent, self-serving horror of a human being like that repugnant bastard.

[mc0558]

@richyboy721 Blair with his lying mouth, his self-serving heart and his choirboy face. I think he is the only prime minister in our history who "sold out" to a foreign power. Literally! Where does he live now and where does he earn his multi-million dollar income? "Dollar" is the give away. Yes, he is the highest paid "professor" in America, teaching--get this?--business and RELIGION at Yale. Yale, that's the Bush family's university. Blair is a Bush pensionary. A lying cheat--that's Tony B.

[richyboy721]

This guy should be charged with crimes against the English people, for the way he systemtically destroyed the nation and its institutions - and then when he had dug the hole he made for himself - had the audacity to jump ship - what a coward.

...and what about this for hypocrisy, he sends our guys to war against these terrorists - his missus makes millions out of defending their human rights.

The most inept, corrupt and opportunist baby-kissing politician of our times.

[mc0558]

@richyboy721 When David Cameron went to kiss hands at Buckingham Palace, he got in the car and drove there. When Blair went, all the traffic was stopped by the police so that the British "President" could drive there without meeting traffic. From the word go, he behaved as though he were the Chief of State, and what is worrying is that no one apparently had the guts to tell him where to get off. Thank God, he's gone, and I hope he stays in America is finally buried there.

[Tim733733]

I never said that was the reason for going to war, I said that was one of the key results of the action. I do believe that the way the war was sold to the public was a mistake, but given most people didn't give a crap about 100,000s of people being genocided, the spin doctors said "look, you're going to have to directly threaten the public if you want support for this war by saying WMD could hit them on the head in 20 minutes". We know he had WMD, because we checked the reciept ;)

[LiteWaiter]

Bureaucracy, the works:

Goal: install a new, higher layer in the bureaucratic controll system. Put him/her on the David Letterman SHOW.

Propose anyone.

If there is a lot of opposition, they will come with an alternative. Good, it means THE POSITION is installed.

Install that alternative.

Get rid of the alternative, and install the puppet.

Mission accomplished.

[Tim733733]

Why exclude the war. He helped remove a mass murder who killed half a million of his own people - at least. I assume you are a terrorist fan, or one of those muslims on the streets of Luton. Deportation notice posted through your door on Monday.

Brilliant PM.

[aeronuk1]

You're very naive to say the least.

We invaded iraq for strategic reasons only. Do you honestly belive we removed Sadam because he was a 'bad man'?

I sugest you search for the truth, you might find out that our countries are the real bad guys.

[xgs724]

@Tim733733

Blair was a conman

and UK citizens can protest the war if they want without being deported

[mc0558]

@xgs724 I think Blair was one of those people who are able to convince themselves that what is in their interest to do is actually the just an moral step to take. Just as I think Brown actually believed his own hype. British children are better off under Labour--how often he said that with such conviction. Yet the figures demonstrated conclusively that they were not better off. Up until I saw the actual figures, I too was impressed. I don't think Brown said to himself, let's lie. He believed!

[Tim733733]

Who's the obese moron with the "cheerio, tut tut" on the video. Would love to punch his fat lights out. Get back to your burgers.

[Tim733733]

Blair = Great PM. Now we're stuck with a fat Scottish idiot.

Probably the best PM since Churchill. Ignore the Liberal coward's comment below.

[RomieK123]

hahaha, idiot.

[freekicking85]

Kind of agree with the war thing, but domestically Thatcher wss MUCH worse.

[MrPeace17]

Actually one of the most successful British PM of all time if you exclude the war.

[TheMrSmikes]

How on earth can you 'Exclude' a war???

[mc0558]

@MrPeace17 What seemed success we now know was just a function of the American housing bubble. Underneath the surface the greatest financial crisis in history was brewing. Within a few months of his leaving office, the bubble burst and trillions had to be thrown into bankrupt institutions to keep the economy from collapsing. Fortunately Brown did this, and if we do avoid another Great Depression, it will be to Brown that we are indepted, because Cameron is peddling in the opposite direction.

[multipletom]

Uuuuuuuuuurgh. No other Prime Minister in the history of this country would behave like that. He's still selling our dignity down the river. I'm just glad I always voted against him.

And what a pity you didn't use the opportunity to play some sort of a trick on him.

[senzakhe1]

most of american seemed to know  that tony blair is still british prime minister

[bilstonjay]

It seems unfair to put Blair on trial for the Iraq war. What about the people who gave him the false intelligence. Why aint they been outed. Seems if you are in charge you are damned if you do.... damned if you don't. An inquiry is fair enough but it aint down to one man to take the fall.

[DreadLaw2]

What false intelligence? Documents (mostly e-mails directly to the PM) released since showed that our External Intelligence services did not believe there to be sufficient evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction to go to war. Not only was there opinion such, but there doesn't exist any actual evidence to back up an alternate anyway.

[mc0558]

@bilstonjay Why unfair, because he is responsible for our army being there and losing hundreds of lads. The man is a self-justifying hypocrite! In love with his own choir boy looks and the sound of his rotten voice. He is one of the worst PM's we have ever had and a disgrace to the Labout Party!

[bilstonjay]

@mc0558 He is responsible.. Dictator Blair! Check out the result of the vote that was taken in the house of commons for war and come back to me. Yes he signed the papers to go to war, but if he is guilty of war crimes so are the people who supplied him the intel that lead to war. That's all I was saying. Every Tory, Lib Dem and Labour MP who voted for it are as guilty too. Remember that fact. You might not want to accept democracy was behind the war, but it was. That and intelligence failures.

[mc0558]

@bilstonjay British intelligence did not fail. They told him Saddam had no wmd's. And US intelligence only "failed" because Bush and Cheney demanded to be given the "intelligence" they wanted to here. The wanted their alibi in place! In Cheney, Bush and Blair, we were in the hands of complete adventurists

[mc0558]

@bilstonjay The trouble is, war isn't declared any more. Only The Queen can declare war, but the politicians bypass her. The just make war without declaring war. The result is one political war after another when the vital interests of the nation are not under threat! This is the Americanization of Britain, which--and God bless the Americans--has in my opinion gone too far on every front our political, economic and cultural lives. Let Britain be Britain!

[darkstar1345a]

@mc0558

obviously you have never heard of thatcher .... not suprising really since your probably about 10 years old .

[mc0558]

@darkstar1345a I have no idea what you are talking about! I knew Mrs. Thatcher very well. i would never vote for her, but some of what she did--making it clear to the trade unions that they must behave responsibly--had to be done. I personally also respected her handling of the Falkland's affair. Otherwise, actually, I'm almost 10 and a little bit more. Pathetic whimp!

[darkstar1345a]

@mc0558

you cant be english then .... how can you respect her for falklands ? the only reason she did that was simply so she could be re elected !!! cos without some distraction she was gonna get booted out !!! as for the unions why dont you tell that to the miners who lost their jobs and how the tories stripped the uk of every resource it ever had . fact - the tories hung , drew and quartered The UK in the 80`s

[mc0558]

@darkstar1345a Of course I'm Engliish! 1. The Falklands has belonged to Britain for a couple of centuries and by lawful treaty. No nation has the right to alter borders by force! Argentina can take its chances in negotiations. 2. The UK has never and must never be treated as though it counts for nothing in this world. How dare the Argentines just seize what by international law belongs to Britain? That's Hitler-stuff. No, it was a moment we had to act; we did act; and thank God it ended well.

[darkstar1345a]

@mc0558

your points are valid but the problem is that she didn`t care about the falkland isles and the response to the situation was a re election policy . I hated her , despised her . i enjoyed my milk back then . although it wasnt her the tories destroyed the railways aswell and leaving a transport system that is barely able to cope . thank the tories for that .

[mc0558]

@darkstar1345a Thank you! I disliked her too. I despised her but I didn't hate her. In other words, she got on my wick but I could see that some of the things she did needed to be done for the good of the country. It's a shame that she was the one to do them.

[mc0558]

@bilstonjay British intelligent gave him good intelligence, but he didn't listen to it! He listened to the weasly Texan voice on the other end of the hot line who told him to swing his ass into position behind that war or suffer the consequences.

Everyone who knew anything about Iraq knew that Iraqis hadn't the ability to deal with wmd's. Once the American technicians who were building wmd/s for him to use against Iran had left Iraq all his wmd program was finished.

[BlairSupporter]

He still pulls 'em in like the superstar he is. We miss his leadership, political nous, style and class here in Britain. Some of us, anyway. But you never hear about that, do you?

The bodyguards looked mighty relieved to get him safely into the car. What a world we live in.

The press here in Britain are after his blood. And they think the Iraq war Inquiry is the place to get it.

Please sign this petition if you support Tony Blair's right to justice too.

Google "Ban Blair-Baiting petition".

[mc0558]

@BlairSupporter Miss his leadership--speak for yourself. I don't know why he pretends to be progressive. His politics were indistinguishable from Margaret Thatcher's. It was on his watch that the groundwork for the financial collapse occurred. He plotted a murderous war in Iraq. I dispise his "preacher on a tank" morality and choir boy face. He lives in the States now where the Bushes throw millions at him. Good riddance! I hope he stays away from "England's green and pleasant land" PERMANENTLY.

[mc0558]

@mc0558 continued. He owns a multi-million dollar apartment in NYC and rents a luxurious house in New Haven. Cherrie seems to have given up her law practice in the UK. Blair's oldest son works for a right wing Republican Congressman in Washington. So you tell me, where does Tony Blair make his home? And don't call me a fool, FOOL!

[mc0558]

@BlairSupporter He pulls 'em in all right--protestors who'd like to string him up! Blair lives in the US because his appearance on the street here would cause riots.  He is the most instanteously and violently repudiated Prime Minister in our history.

[BlairSupporter]

@mc0558 - he actually pulls in a few hundred protesters and many more supporters, but he does not wish to cause more expense for the security just to combat the few hundred crazies. I'd like to string up the protesters, btw. They shout loudly but they do not speak for the majority in Britain. There is NO way he is the most "instanteously and violently repudiated Prime Minister in our history". That's utter rubbish. He doesn't live in the USA, btw, you fool. Do your howework before you mouth off.

[mc0558]

@BlairSupporter If the public at large was informed precisely of where he was going to turn up, the protests would be far larger. As for Blair's popularity in 2010, it stood at 25% pro, 60% anti, the rest unsure. I agree with you, that's a remarkable degree of popularity considering what he has done to the country.As for where he lives: he teaches at Yale. He appears on 1 US talk show after another. He is on the US $100thous+ per speech circuit.When is the last time you saw him appear in the UK?