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Good bye, Mr. Blair

From the conservative and not-occasionally silly (thanks Conrad Black!) but still interesting Jerusalem Post:

Jan. 23, 2003
France, Germany give Britain the elbow, By DOUGLAS DAVIS

Germany and France were, not for the first time, marching in lock-step this week as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Jacques Chirac loudly articulated their joint opposition to a military engagement with Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

The occasion was a Franco-German celebration on Wednesday to mark the 40th anniversary of their post-war friendship treaty. It was a particularly inappropriate occasion for such declarations as both countries owe huge war-related debts to the United States, France, for its liberation from Nazi occupation; Germany, for its postwar economic revival.

But the world of power politics, as France and Germany have demonstrated, is no place for sentiment. As they peered across the Channel at Britain they could, no doubt with a sense of schadenfreude, appreciate the extreme heat that Tony Blair is taking as a result of his commitment to the American lead.

( Pity Tony Blair. )

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