Oh, I missed that one. I get my news digest mad at the end of the week.; I haven't5 seen much telly or heard radio news lately, and trhe conservationist in me despises the buying of newspapers,

>On Blair I was referring to this latest incident with him Bush and a mike that is turned on. It's been one of the main topics of discussion in the US for the last couple days. The mike and bush's massage of the german politician.
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>I read one column that I think came from the guardian discussing how it proved Blair is still bush's lapdog.
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>>>But does he have to be so obvious about it???? This is the best we can elect to be president of the US?
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>>What can you do when you have to choose between just 2 men?
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>>>He goes out of his way to prove his level of incompetence daily. I don't think if Clinton, Bush Sr, Carter, Reagan were still president, we would still be waiting for a US envoy to go over there and survey the situation.
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>>>BTW, are the news services in UK really slamming Blair the lapdog?
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>>Well they did a lot over the Gulf War but not so much nowadays. Blair's lamp[ooned for all his other gaffs and foibles.
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>>>>>Tony Snow on bush's stated goal of vetoing the stem cell bill:
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>>>>>"The simple answer is he thinks murder's wrong," said White House spokesman Tony Snow. "The president is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something living and making it dead for the purposes of scientific research."
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>>It's interesting that fertility clinics "kill" many embryos (they implant several, expecting only 1 to survive, dispose of excess unneeded embryos afer the implant, etc.) but noone has a go at them.