Comments on: Ask Tony and win

By: Julian Todd

Julian Todd — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:09:36 +0000

The interview was unbearable.

Michael White:

People sometimes say to me: That Tony Blair, he is a liar, he lied about the WMD. And I say: No, I don’t think he did, I think he believes what he tells us all on the television, but he and Mr Bush were perhaps guilty of considerable naivety about the ease with which they thought they could bring about change in a society which had been under a dictatorship for 34 years.

Later, Blair says:

[T]he difference with this global terrorist movement we have now is that they killed 3,000 people on the streets of New York, you know they killed over people on the streets of London, 200 people in Madrid, but if they could have multiplied any of those numbers by a factor of ten, they would have done it, and that is what is different.

Shall we say that Blair has helped to kill well over 100k of people in Iraq, during the three years after Saddam Hussain was deposed from power and no longer had anything to do with it. If Blair could have divided that number by a factor of 10, he would not have done so.

Cluster bombs ahoy! Don’t retreat until you see the whites of their oil wells!

By: dearieme

dearieme — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:19:53 +0000

I saw AP’s comment in its original form yesterday. He does make a very good point, very powerfully, but nonetheless you were right to edit it. I suppose.

By: Larry Teabag

Larry Teabag — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:29:55 +0000

Well done Justin.

I was going to submit one enquiring about his cock-length, but I guess I’m too late.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:06:12 +0000

What about a question to Michael White along the lines of “What the FUCK do you think you’re doing by acting as a PR man for the government?”

By: john

john — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:43:06 +0000

This made me laugh

Prime Minister:

Yes, yes. On the technical questions, look I am the last person to give a technical, as you know.

Michael White:

This is true.

No doubt I will look back at it in 5 or 10 years and weep.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:56:51 +0000

There's an MP3 of it here. Your mileage will vary depending on how much you enjoy prevarication, obfuscation and sheer brass-necked masturbation.

By: Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:41:30 +0000

Congrats Justin, anyone got a voice feed?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:49:26 +0000

And mine wasn’t? To be honest it seemed to me that not many submitted questions got asked. What would you say, about a half dozen padded out with follow ups from White and Sands?

By: Davide Simonetti

Davide Simonetti — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:40:42 +0000

*sigh*

Oh well, it was a long shot.

By: Davide Simonetti

Davide Simonetti — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:21:45 +0000

Yeah,

I should have said “addressed”.