Congratulations to all the right-thinking folks in the UK and Australia! Yes, I'm a bit late on this but better late than never. The re-elections of Tony Blair and John Howard to third terms as Prime Minister of their respective countries are events that confirm what many Conservatives (both here and abroad) find honorable about these men. They are men of good common sense with views of freedom and foreign policy that mirror our own. Granted, Blair is "liberal" but he has proven a staunch ally in the war against terror, as has our Conservative friend Howard, so many of us overlook Blair's association with the Labour party.
The British press is obviously just as liberally biased as our own press right here in the States. I read BBC and see reports online that there is great unrest in the UK and Australia over the war in Iraq. Yet, somehow, in the recent elections the people of the UK and Australia supported our biggest allies in the war. Not only did UK citizens vote their support for Blair's foreign policy, they went on to grant seats in Parliament to politicians with an even more Conservative worldview!
It seems to me that many analysts are bending the story of Blair's re-election into a giant doom pretzel. I read that Tories WON seats in Parliament... CONSERVATIVE Tories. Need I say more? Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard put it best in his editorial.
Again, congratulations UK and Australia -- a big high-five from your Conservative friends in the States!
The British press is obviously just as liberally biased as our own press right here in the States. I read BBC and see reports online that there is great unrest in the UK and Australia over the war in Iraq. Yet, somehow, in the recent elections the people of the UK and Australia supported our biggest allies in the war. Not only did UK citizens vote their support for Blair's foreign policy, they went on to grant seats in Parliament to politicians with an even more Conservative worldview!
It seems to me that many analysts are bending the story of Blair's re-election into a giant doom pretzel. I read that Tories WON seats in Parliament... CONSERVATIVE Tories. Need I say more? Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard put it best in his editorial.
Again, congratulations UK and Australia -- a big high-five from your Conservative friends in the States!
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