The `end of days' is coming for pan-blues

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By Wang Chien-chuang???

Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004,Page 8

When British Prime Minister Tony Blair first took office, the Tories looked like a dinosaur that had been knocked over, unable to get to its feet no matter how hard it tried.

After Sept. 11, 2001, US President George W. Bush managed to achieve 90 percent support in opinion polls and his authority far exceeded that of any president.

When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi first took office he seemed like a political messiah, and achieved an unrivaled level of popularity.

But the ways of history are strange and all it took was the Iraq war, and the "butterfly effect" that it caused, to threaten the administrations of three widely scattered governments whose dominance in their own country had seemed unassailable only a short time before. As a result, oppositions that had seemed at death's door were able to revive. If things continue as they are, it is not improbable that we will see a transition of power, sooner or later, which will be a major turning point in all three countries.

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