Guardian: Get Mad – and Get Even (Blame Blair, rather than Bush) [View All]

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Bush deserves our rage, but Blair should take the brunt of it. We elected him, now we must get rid of him


The US president, George Bush, looks pretty baffled at the best of times. But after an hour-long meeting with "moderates" in Bali during his whistle-stop tour of Asia last month he cut a particularly confused figure. For reasons he could not quite grasp, his self-professed vision of America as a benign superpower spreading democracy through the Middle East was received with polite scepticism, even among those nations and leaders he considered allies. "Do they really believe that we think all Muslims are terrorists?" he asked. "I've been saying all along that not every policy issue needs to be dealt with by force."

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We did not elect Bush (it is a moot point whether anybody did) and can do little about him but hope that the Democrats get it together to beat him next year. We did elect Blair, and if these demonstrations are going to be about anything more than ire, then it is our responsibility to get rid of him.

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Meanwhile, Bush comes to the same country that turned out in droves to welcome Bill Clinton, when he walked through the centre of London with a smile and a wave and not a combat vehicle in sight. Bush is not synonymous with America any more than Blair is synonymous with Britain. We can make Bush uncomfortable; it is only Blair we can make unemployed.

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