2003-02-16 4:47 pm
Vive La France
Apparently haemorrhoids are 'quite common'. I guess it's the price I pay for shuffling several miles in the bitter cold after doing a particularly splendid, beery poo.
It's nice to know that Tony Blair has the courage of his convictions, and I admire him for it, even though I believe he is wrong from start to finish. However I do get a little hot under the collar when he refers to peace protestors as misinformed. If we are misinformed, and I do not believe we are, then it is his failure, not ours. Intelligence dossiers put together by press secretaries hardly inspire confidence in government.
When the Iraqis derided Colin Powell's evidence as fabrications and lies I did not know who to believe - the Iraqi generals or the American Secretary of State. Isn't that an extraordinary position to be in? But trust is something you earn, and of course it does not follow that because the Iraqi generals may be a bunch of crooks, the US administration is as pure as the driven snow. It is their job to make themselves trustworthy. Can the US look back at the history of its own government and honestly say it has never lied to its people? Clearly it cannot. Neither can Blair.
Vive La France.
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