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07SAOPAULO404
2007-05-16 09:39:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: UK, TONY BLAIR STEPS DOWN; SAO
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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: UK, TONY BLAIR STEPS DOWN; SAO
PAULO
"Tony Blair's Debacle"
Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo
editorialized (5/12): "Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he
will not conclude his third term at a moment when only 22% of Brits
declare trust in him. This has nothing to do with the unsteadiness
of popular sentiment. Blair can only blame himself for his debacle,
more exactly of deserving the nickname of Bush's poodle. Not only as
a result of his amazing and as of yet unexplained explained
subservience to the worst of what the US has ever produced in terms
of presidents and foreign policy, but also because he involved the
UK in the insane war in Iraq and his government imitated his ally on
the other side of the Atlantic in disseminating untruths about the
danger represented by Saddam Hussein's imaginary arsenal of mass
destruction and links with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda."
McMullen