It's kind of a long one, but here's a quote of Blair covering our American hiney:
"A large part of the perspective with which we look at this is to see every act of terrorism in Iraq, every piece of ghastly carnage on our television screens, every tragic loss of our own forces -- we see that as a setback and as a failure when we should be seeing that as a renewed urgency for us to rise to the challenge of defeating these people who are -- who are committing this carnage, because over these past three years, at every stage, the reason they have been fighting is not, as we can see, because Iraqi people don't believe in democracy, Iraqi people don't want liberty. It is precisely because they fear Iraqi people do want democracy, Iraqi people do want liberty. And if the idea became implanted in the minds of people in the Arab and Muslim world that democracy was as much their right as our right, where do these terrorists go, what do they do, how do they recruit? How do they say America is the evil Satan?"
Basically, Tony Blair is saying that the Iraqi people are not against democracy. Sure, they may not be waving American flags and kissing the feet of our soldiers -- but they certainly aren't shirking from the voting booths the way Americans do. A CNN report said the IECI estimates the voter turnout to be 72% of the population. As opposed to the ol' land of the free over here, with a whopping 51.3% in 2000. And they are beating us at this dispite the looming threat of terrorist attacks.
So, there's gotta be something to our implementation of democracy there. It appears that they appreciate their new democracy more than we appreciate our aging one.
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Maybe, but Blair has only a 29% approval rating in Great Britain, so we need to take that into account when we listen to his words.
~CallieV
good for blair he should