Quote Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
Thats what I said.

The problem is the American belief that only their flavour of democracy works. One begins to wonder if Blair's local assrmblies were/are a way to impress his chums over the pond. There is no need for true federalism in the modern world with modern communications. The US is proof of this, laws in that country are ridiculously chaotic. You don't even have one age of consent!

The British had a plan for post-Iraq, the Pentagon had a plan. The American Admistration had a crusade.

Hence the problem.
Given the difficulty of pan-Atlantic communications, and how the British traditions of scepticism of government and a free and hostile press tend to muddle things, one has to admit Blair has been a remarkably competent governor of the UK, doing everything asked of him by his boss in Washington without inciting the British into open revolt. I think he'd make a very good governor of Iraq, preferably based in somewhere like Ramadi without unnecessary burdens like a guard to separate him from the Iraq people. I think the British people would be grateful if President Bush would give Governor Blair this honour.