Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Poodle Boy Straps On His Spine
Alas, it's atrophied from disuse. But it still is heartening to see Tony Blair try to break from BushCo:
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the United States must do more to address the concerns of the rest of the world if it expects support for its own policies, and he cited global warming as a prime example. ``If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too,'' he told the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a gathering of 2,500 world political and business leaders. Blair and French President Jacques Chirac - who appeared on a video link - both urged the world's richest nations to provide billions of dollars to help developing countries combat AIDS, poverty and natural disasters. Blair's unusually sharp comments directed at the United States come at a time of growing public anger in Britain over his support for President Bush in Iraq, and months before British general elections. Alluding to one of the key issues dividing the United States from Europe and much of the world, Blair said: ``I support the Kyoto Protocol. Others will not ... but business and the global economy need to know this isn't an issue that is going away.''
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