Originally posted by Yeager
I never cared for Blair when he was blowing sunshine up clintons a-hole, but I have grown to think he is an above average englishman, although that probably doesnt mean alot. The brits eat their best PMs like so much crow pie. Blair will end up like the rest of them. Bird turds splashed on passing windshields 
Everyone expects conservatives to be hawkish and liberals to be dovish about everything. After all, that is where their constituencies are 99% of the time.
You also expect political parties to oppose anything the "other side" of the politcal coin is currently advocating. Regardless of whether the policy or program works or makes sense or not, if it is "your side's" program, you defend it, if it is the "other side's" program, you oppose it.
Which to me says that Tony Blair is the only person you can 100% totally say has been acting on
principle throughout the entire "war on terror" instead of out of political expediency. He is 180 degrees out of phase with the rest of the Libs.
For doing what he believes is right, regardless of political reprocussions, I admire him. It's a rare thing in a politician, regardless of country.
I wish they were all like him in that regard.
