Prime Minister's speech to Congress (text)

number-10.gov.uk ^ | 07/18/03

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes anyone know when this is to be replayed?

[onyx]

Thank you Sir Winston Churchill for watching over PM Blair!

PM Blair is a giant of a man. Utterly without peer on his side of the pond.

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair --- what a duo --- praise be to God.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well I found this at the C=SPAN Web Site!:

11:25 pm
0:48 (est.)	Joint Meeting British Prime Minister Address U.S. House of Representatives Tony Blair , Labour, United Kingdom

[onyx]

Immediately after the final democrat shuts his mouth on C-Span1.

[Amelia]

But...we invaded an innocent people and killed millions of children and found no WMD's...doesn't anyone care? It's all for oil...*sniff*

Get on back to DU, you..you...DISRUPTOR, you! ;-)

Sounds like my liberal relatives....

[Amelia]

Thanks! I can stay up that late!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I thought he was doing a Freeper impression. : )

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hope I am reading it right, I don't spend much time watching C-SPAN!

That would 8:25 PDT>

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[agrace]

BUmp for later read

[nutmeg]

Thanks for the ping, Bigg Red! I'm waiting for the re-play of PM Tony Blair's speech to Congress on C-SPAN. It's supposed to be run at 11:28pm ET... just a few minutes from now.

[lainde]

Thank you for the ping...BEAUTIFUL SPEECH!

[Mr. Silverback]

Blair rocks. If every liberal was like him, the world would be 1,000% better.

[Luis Gonzalez]

BUMP!!!

[CyberCowboy777]

Bump for a good speech

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and ping !
Excerpt and link to another speech by Blair:

Tony Blair: The price of my conviction

Excerpt:

But there are also consequences of 'stop the war'. There will be no march for the victims of Saddam, no protests about the thousands of children that die needlessly every year under his rule, no righteous anger over the torture chambers which if he is left in power, will remain in being.

I rejoice that we live in a country where peaceful protest is a natural part of our democratic process. But I ask the marchers to understand this.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

If there are 500,000 on the [Stop the War] march, that is still less than the number of people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for. If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars he started.

So if the result of peace is Saddam staying in power, not disarmed, then I tell you there are consequences paid in blood for that decision too. But these victims will never be seen, never feature on our TV screens or inspire millions to take to the streets. But they will exist none the less.

President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of England walk out to address the media in Cross Hall at the White House Nov. 7. "We've got no better friend in the world than Great Britain," said the President during his remarks. White House photo by Paul Morse.

[Steve0113]

FYI: An important word was omitted from the transcript. This sentence:

And we need to say clearly to UN members: if you engage in the systematic and gross abuse of human rights, in defiance of the UN charter, you can expect the same privileges as those that conform to it.

made no sense to me. I checked the videotape, and what he actually said was:

And we need to say clearly to UN members: if you engage in the systematic and gross abuse of human rights, in defiance of the UN charter, you can not expect the same privileges as those that conform to it.

[Steve0113]

ping. This speech is a keeper.

[Miss Marple]

Here it is! I was pinged to it yesterday evening! Sorry for the confusion...plus I see Blair isn't in the title! Jeesh!

I also love the last paragraphs of this speech.

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks for the ping, I'll enjoy the comments (had already found the speech, as you'll see in my response on the press conference thread).