HOW ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POLITICS CAME TOGETHER

Start with Tony Blair PM 1997-2007

It recently came out that although Rupert Murdoch had never backed a candidate in Tony Blair’s Labour Party; Tony managed to get his backing in the election for Prime Minister of Great Britain. What a coup for Tony. As a result, Rupert was always welcome at the open back door of 10 Downing Street.

Add George Bush Pres. 2001-2009

George Bush ran for president with the biggest war chest of any other candidate in the United States. He was also the least qualified, but the Republican Party at that time was determined to take control of politics in the US. With the backing of the Right Wing, the ones with all the big money and the help of Lee Atwater’s lies, he became the puppet of the self- chosen, self- serving Vice President Dick Cheney.

Together Cheney, Bush and their cronies started a war from which they and all their friends profited. I never felt that those people were ever sorry for all the deaths that resulted and in the destruction of Iraq. Even the American soldiers killed over there were snuck into the United States in the dead of night at Dover, Delaware.

You probably noticed how Tony Blair became such good friends with Bush, although his own countrymen were against Britain’s entering into the war, Blair backed the invasion and sent British troops.

In the United States with the backing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, we became a country of flag wavers, wearers of flag pins, but the only soldiers fighting and dying in the war were not members of Congress or their families. Our young people were sold a bill of goods about how great it is to die for your country.

Talk to the families who saw those pictures of deceased eighteen year-old Marines proudly wearing their graduation uniforms in the papers every day and imagined their sons and grandsons would be pictured there sometime soon.

We are one of those families who dreaded that news every day for a year. Our grandson came home safely, thousands of others were not so lucky.

Best friends forever, Tony Blair, George Bush and Rupert Murdoch.