Tony Blair- Dishonest and Insincere

I view Tony Blair as a very smooth politician,very insincere and interested in only the image he projects. He has undermined the political landscape in UK and the World by blindly supporting USA. Even that I suspect is to buttress his personal image and to align himself with a more powerful nation. I think he wants to be like George Bush, with all th e trappings of power that comes with it.

He is very glib and gets out of tough questions by asking a question in return, without honestly answering the question posed to him.

I dislike his repeated statements 'let us not focus on what has happened in the past, what mistakes we have made, but let us focus on the present and what we have to do to retrieve the situation, etc'. This has been his standard answer in many forums to questions about his worngful support of Iraq invasion, etc. He should try a more honest tack, admitting the reponsibility and doing something concrete to rectify them and give redressal to the affected people.

I believe he is long on talk and very very short on action.

But with his boyish looks and smooth-talking manner, he has been able to fool the people of UK and some sections of the world population.

I only hope he is consigned to the oblivion he deserves, without being resurrected as a senior statesman or a diplomot or some such thing.

To prove my point Tony Blair is continuing his dishonest and unreliable streak with the latest announcement to withdraw British troops from Iraq. He has once again confirmed by this action that he is motivated to act only to preserve/boost his image and ratings and has absolutely no principle or policy or ideals. He took Britain to an illegal and immoral war, to follow in the footsteps of George Bush, expecting they would win easily and he can bask in the glory of being a top man on the Winning Team. But when that has turned sour, he is now ready to ditch his grand ally across the Atlantic, with the sole aim of restoring his crumbling reputation. He has now shown that he has no guts to stick it out till the end. It is better if he resigns immediately without further damaging the name of Great Britain.

Good luck to Gordon Brown, who inherits a shamble and has to work doubly hard to rebuild a new British image in the international arena.