[Round II HERE] 

First, let me say that I am a huge Tony Blair fan so this is from the heart being that my politics from the ripe age of 17 were guided by this man.  [Yes, I am now a "conservative" because I believe in free economies and freedom for all people… including Iraqis and Afghanis.  At one time freedom for all was a tradtional liberal ideal.]  I watched him ride to power with his gorgeous wife Cherie, launch Operation Desert Fox with Bill Clinton, provide the world with a moral alternative to Bill Clinton, take NATO to war for Kosovo with Serbia and on and on. 

When I was getting beat up in high school, and got sick as a result… what helped cheer me up was seeing our troops and Blair's principles stand up to Saddam and Slobodan, both of whom are now dead.  I sought out every chance to watch Prime Minister's Questions on C-SPAN during international crises and of course, the end result.  I cheered when I saw the bombs going off in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia because dammit, people who believed in liberty & morality were fighting back against the bullies on the world stage.  And seeing them fight back gave me the strength to take up arms against the bullies in my midst until I got out of there. Put in the big picture: What America didn't receive from then-President Bill Clinton in moral clarity the world got from British Prime Minister Tony Blair and certainly got from the warriors serving both nations (and the rest of NATO).

When I was confronting elitist leftists at Skagit Valley College hell-bent on taking away our liberties and being unaccountable, I quoted (surprise, surprise) Tony Blair to marshal the English language into battle and bring down the elitist tyrants as well as urge my fellow Cardinals to seize the fallout opportunies after the first teachers' federation no-confidence vote in our history.  Put in the big picture: What America didn't receive from President G. W. Bush in imagination and communication the free world got its voice and vision during another World War from a British Prime Minister.

When I had my doubts about supporting the Iraq liberation in late 2002 because my then-biases against the Bush Administration and reservations about going into Iraq I turned to Prime Minister Blair to explain why war was necessary.  Yes, there was the WMD (of which, we found some that many lefties would like to deny - like the more than "500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent", the "1,500 gallons of chemicals" of "11 precursor agents" and of course the sarin gas shell - yes, WMD IED - that went off in 2004.).  But also the enormous human rights violations and the genocides attempted against the Kurds and Shiite Marsh Arabs by Saddam's regime made me support the war.  Put in the big picture: What America didn't recieve in moral clarity over Iraq, Prime Minister Blair provided.

Thank you, Mr. Blair.  You. got. it. done.  You spat in the face of evil for the human race and you have every right to consider yourself victorious as you now attempt to do another "impossible" task - bring peace to Israel & Palestine.  If not for this assignment, I would be quite sad - and quite sad not just for America and Britain, but for those right now fearful of the isolationist "liberals" and their plans schemes for the world's future in America, Britain and Canada.  I would be and to some extent am sad for those like I who believe in the basic fundamental right of every human being to be free and that there is good and evil in the world… and depend on those whom believe that to allow evil to reign - especially a genocidal regime are just about as guilty as the evildoer(s).  Well was said by Sir Giuliani today, "I had occasion to visit with him several times in London and I could see then that while his approach may have been separated by generations and ideology, history will see Mr. Blair as a modern-day Churchill. Because they led through strength and fought for what is right, millions have been liberated, and the world is on a path to safety and prosperity."

BLAIR ON!!!!!
V FOR VICTORY!!!!!!!!! 

Footnote for posterity: Yes, I support taking action in Darfur.  I'd just like to see the Hollywood lefties pushing this to put pressure on their UN & Democrat friends to get something done and preferably done now against this Islamofacist outrage against black Africans.  I just hope the lefties realize it would probably end up being yet another Iraq.

[Round II HERE]