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Blair gives up on his EU dream
London Telegraph via Drudge ^ | 6/5/2005 | Melissa Kite, Toby Harnden and Tony Paterson

Posted on 06/04/2005 8:10:53 PM PDT by lainie

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1 posted on 06/04/2005 8:10:53 PM PDT by lainie
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To: lainie
No Euro, No EU, No Chiraq! God couldn't have dealt America a better hand!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
2 posted on 06/04/2005 8:13:09 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: lainie

this is HUGE.


3 posted on 06/04/2005 8:13:58 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: goldstategop
God couldn't have dealt America a better hand!

Yep, only He could have pulled this off.
Now Lord, please keep Tony from uttering that nonsense about KYOTO.

4 posted on 06/04/2005 8:17:10 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
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To: lainie
IMHO, he should focus more on what ails England...let that be his legacy. So many pols want to look somewhere in the world (European Union, Africa, Asia, etc.) for their legacy. Instead, they should focus first on their home nation, and limit the foreign issues to those that may impact the strategic issues of that home nation.

Here in the US, among other things, we could stand a real hard look, and real, meaningful action on our borders to halt illegal immigration in its tracks and ensure that our immigration policy is made healthy and then maintained strictly through legal immigration.

5 posted on 06/04/2005 8:17:40 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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"Africa is worth fighting for. Europe, in its present form, is not."

"Europe is back to the drawing board. Africa will become more important."

What can one say?

6 posted on 06/04/2005 8:19:17 PM PDT by twas
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Mr Blair, who will seek to shift the focus of his administration on to poverty in the Third World this week during talks with President Bush, has told his closest allies: "Africa is worth fighting for."

It is not possible to fight the poverty of Africa without out first fighting the culture of Africa that produces that poverty. Simply stuffing $millions down the rat hole of primitivism will accomplish nothing except waste more resources.

7 posted on 06/04/2005 8:19:17 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: lainie

And guess what's next:


8 posted on 06/04/2005 8:21:07 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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To: goldstategop
No Euro, No EU, No Chiraq! God couldn't have dealt America a better hand!


9 posted on 06/04/2005 8:22:54 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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Africa may or may not be worth fighting for, But we need to get out of the Mid-east first. Dont spend a dime on Africa unless we get rid of the leaders of the countries that are not allowing human rights.


10 posted on 06/04/2005 8:23:58 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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France should be in a panic about now. They were the main beneficiary of the whole EU scheme. They get massive subsidies for their farmers and it looks like that may be about to end.


11 posted on 06/04/2005 8:24:46 PM PDT by McGavin999
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Tony has found another bottomless pit.


12 posted on 06/04/2005 8:25:24 PM PDT by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: goldstategop; longtermmemmory
this is HUGE.

My sentiments too!

13 posted on 06/04/2005 8:26:36 PM PDT by lainie
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"Africa is worth fighting for.

My, what an inane statement.

14 posted on 06/04/2005 8:28:42 PM PDT by neutrino (Globalization “is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.” (173))
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Mr Blair, who will seek to shift the focus of his administration on to poverty in the Third World this week during talks with President Bush, has told his closest allies: "Africa is worth fighting for. Europe, in its present form, is not."

Put the damn, over-valued euro to good use then! We'll continue to do what we have to do with our dollars fight for something worth fighting for while you take your high-value currency and shove it down some third-world pimps' pockets!

15 posted on 06/04/2005 8:31:28 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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To: Jeff Head; sgtbono2002

I can't disagree with anything you said. I'm a little puzzled by this Africa comment, but heck.


16 posted on 06/04/2005 8:35:11 PM PDT by lainie
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To: twas

Pretty much says it all! A bit abrupt, though. What's the other shoe?


17 posted on 06/04/2005 8:36:37 PM PDT by lainie
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To: stripes1776

Exactly. Live Aid 1 raised tens of millions of dollars to feed a country (Ethiopia) which will see upwards of 300,000 children die, mostly of malnutrition, in 2005. I looked it up the other day. So. "So, let's do it again, Sir Bob!" ueggh


18 posted on 06/04/2005 8:38:04 PM PDT by lainie
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To: Jeff Head; sgtbono2002

Wait, is he saying that since he doesn't see himself being crowned King and Grand Pooh Bah of the E.U., he's going to drop it, and instead wants to see Britain return to the good old days of colonization?


19 posted on 06/04/2005 8:39:57 PM PDT by lainie
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But the Prime Minister is unlikely to be able to divert attention completely from the chaos over Europe's future.

That's another part of the short term equation. Blair's smart enough to know Africa's going to remain basket case
until the French are gone, the Swiss/Luxemborg/French/Caribbean bankers are gone, the envirowackos are gone, the
American Poverty Pimps are gone, Karl Marx is gone, the Chinese are gone....

It's nothing more that feel good razzle dazzle that can turn out to be expensive for the US taxpayers.

Bush wastes enough of our money on useless "fixes" for third world problems.

Let Blair tax the @sses off of his constituents.

20 posted on 06/04/2005 8:40:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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