Blair’s ‘exceptional leadership’: final proof that there is no God
Shoot me. Just bloody shoot me.
Former prime minister Tony Blair has won a one million dollar (£697,000) international prize for his “exceptional leadership”, it has been announced.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I mean, this is up there with Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Have these people not seen the mountains of corpses? The limbless children? The weeping mothers? The vengeful fathers? Butchers taking animals to the abattoir show more consideration and care. If we slaughtered our livestock like we slaughter brown people, Britain would go vegetarian overnight.
If Blair is an example of ‘exceptional leadership’, then only a supremely damaged mind could show us what ‘unexceptional leadership’ would look like. You’d need a Breugel to visualise it. Look where Blair’s supremely damaged mind took us. Thank Christ he wasn’t a lesser leader, eh?
Exceptional leadership. One million dollars. What will he spend it on, one wonders.
Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 6:40pm under Uncategorized
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The prize is from the Dan David Foundation, which is based in Tel Aviv. That might possibly go some way to explaining their sang-froid where mountains of corpses are concerned.
More a bribe I think, it’s from the Dan David Prize, administered by Tel Aviv University (who after Gaza was attacked appointed the IDF’s international law expert Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch to a teaching post), Blair is the ‘Peace Envoy’ in the region (and like Sharvit-Baruch widely believed to be a war criminal) so they are just making nice with a fellow blood stained mover & shaker in anticipation of the usual ‘peace process’ bullshit.
Here’s the citation. I wonder if Dan David had considered the ramifications for Israel of the idea that “there are some things a state may do within its borders that justify intervention even if the actions do not threaten another nation’s interests,” never mind the whole 45 minutes thing that supposedly threatened our interests. However its the last line that takes the biscuit:
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Tony Blair
Laureates 2009 – 2009 Present Leadership
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair, former British Prime Minister, is one of the most outstanding statesmen of our era.
From the time he assumed leadership of the British Labor Party in 1994 until he stepped down as prime minister in 2007, he showed exceptional intelligence and foresight, and demonstrated moral courage and leadership.
Having led a demoralized and struggling party to power in 1997, Blair exercised a pragmatic approach, strong conviction and personal charisma to lead his country in a period of remarkable economic and cultural growth. He helped broker an agreement between Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland; he engineered, against all odds, the policy that resolved the crisis in Kosovo, and he was one of the architects of transforming Britain’s position in the EEC. It was the Kosovo crisis in particular that transformed Tony Blair into an international leader on the basis of his steadfast determination and morally courageous leadership.
Tony Blair has consistently asked the important questions and thought deeply about the interconnected world of the 21st century. Early in his prime ministership, he came to two beliefs that guide him to today: first, that it is a mistake for the world to wait for America to solve all of the tough questions, and second, that there are some things a state may do within its borders that justify intervention even if the actions do not directly threaten another nation’s interests.
Upon stepping down as Prime Minister, Blair was appointed as the Middle East Quartet Representative. As envoy for the united Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, his goal is to bring stability and peace to the Middle East.
Throughout his career, Tony Blair has acted on the basis of what he believes to be right, a hallmark of leadership.
It gets worse
Oops, sorry duff link.
President Blair: Former PM set to become EU chief as Sarkozy battles to win him the post
Blair “anointed EU President soon” also.
Blair as EU President? Aw hell, Tim Ireland was right. There’ll be no shutting him up.
Ireland, we need to burn you as a witch.
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It seems that Blair is getting that prize specifically for thinking up ideas that are in breach of international law, and which history has shown to lead often to trouble.
Also: there are lots of lovely quotes in that Daily Mail article:-
“Blair is the only man who can help Europe stand up to the rest of the world”
“Purnell, tipped to succeed Gordon Brown”
Who makes these things up?
Blair says he’s giving the money to his “religious tolerance” organisation, which, as a misnomer, is up their with Military Intelligence.
Reminds me of this…
It’s payday in the Blair household for services loyally rendered. A bit like receiving millions from JP Morgan, the bank that just happened to have made most in a Certain middle east war started by a Certain Person …