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Title: Tony Blair Pelted With Eggs And Shoes At Memoirs Signing
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Mirror UK
URL Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st ... moirs-signing-115875-22538480/
Published: Sep 6, 2010
Author: Mirror UK
Post Date: 2010-09-06 00:03:56 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2005
Comments: 10
Tony Blair had eggs and shoes hurled at him by protesters as he signed copies of his new memoirs yesterday. The former Prime Minister was met by 200 demonstrators booing and chanting he had "blood on his hands" over Iraq and Afghanistan as he promoted A Journey in Dublin. One protester, Donal MacFhearraigh, said: "Blair took the world to war on the basis of lies." Mr Blair's advisers had hoped he would get a hero's welcome in the Irish capital because of his role in helping to broker the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland. There was a large police presence and O'Connell Street was closed to traffic. About 400 customers turned up at Eason's bookstore as Blair kicked off his worldwide promotional tour. As he arrived demonstrators hurled shoes, eggs, plastic bottles and other missiles, although nothing hit him. There were scuffles as some of the crowd tried to force their way towards the store.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Aw, shucks! I saw this in the news print paper today.
Happy Labor Day! ______________________________________________________________________________ ...started with cheney, rummy. nixon's protege, ford, brought them in. The oil industry’s only model is growth. The only large-scale economic model known is for growth, made possible in the past from petroleum supplies in ever-increasing abundance. These sources are collapsing in oil-producing countries, and demand will never be met by tar sands, heavy oils, or biofuels. As oil supply plummets, the industry will be unable to adapt. It cannot just ratchet down its refining output to follow a smooth depletion curve. Refineries must utilize their capacity at high levels to produce a balance of products (gasoline, distillates, fuel oils). This need will remain even as lower-producing wells are capped and already rusting facilities require ever-growing investments and retrofits. jfk assassinated as US Oil Production peaks. the end. 8D
Oh, and Happy Labor Day becomes Memorial Day for the Middle Class.
Good one and so true! I'm off to play the ponies today. Wish me luck.
Of course. Bueno Suerte, Senor! 8D
What does this mean? Well, as I have repeatedly pointed out, the "war on terror" in the Middle East has nothing to do with combating terror, and everything to do with remaking that region's geopolitical situation to America's advantage. Feith's book, War and Decision, released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing "new regimes" in a series of states...
Thanks! I've got to get out of here or I'll be late.
go. And....They're OutOfThe Gate! 8D
5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam". He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time", is the statement "Hard to get a good case." In other words, top officials knew that there wasn't a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway. Moreover, "Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda".
As he arrived demonstrators hurled shoes, eggs, plastic bottles and other missiles, although nothing hit him.
#2. To: Fred Mertz, Brian S, war, Skippy, lucysmom, miningold, BDS sufferers everywhere (#1)
Enjoy!
All the disastrous decisions we're dealing with now started with Bush . . .
-Skippy, the boy wonder.
#3. To: Fred Mertz, Ignore Amos (#2)
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#6. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
I'm off to play the ponies today. Wish me luck.
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