Blair To Become Catholic; Looking For Post War Absolution?
By Mark Groubert Sunday Jun 24, 2007 1:30pm
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will convert to Roman Catholicism as soon as he steps down from his role as head of the British Government next week. Mr. Blair, who has had many in England scratching their heads over his deeply committed relationship to the foreign policy of American president George W. Bush, will discuss his conversion with none other than Pope Benedict XVI when he visits him in Rome. Rumors have circulated for months that Blair would leave the Church of England, but now it is all but official.
Andrew Grice, the political editor of The Independent is reporting that Blair has waited until leaving office to avoid possible legal issues:
Although Britain has never had a Catholic prime minister, the church has said there would be no constitutional bar to Mr Blair joining while he was still in office. But some lawyers believe the 1829 Emancipation Act, which granted civil rights to Roman Catholics, may still prevent a Catholic from becoming Prime Minister. It says that no Catholic adviser to the monarch can hold civil or military office.
According to sources close to him, Blair is seeking a role as U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East and may be named that by President Bush before the end of the latter's term of office ends.
Apparently, Blair met with Pope Benedict on Saturday as his last official act of office and was given a "frank" dressing down by the anti-war Germanic Pope. The Vatican said there had been a 'frank exchange of views.' If Tony Blair was looking towards the Pontiff and the Catholic Church for the absolution of his sins regarding the Iraq War, he was not to find it in Vatican City. Blair, trying to put some spiritual distance between himself and his policies, had no such luck. Not unlike Michael Corleone in Godfather III, Blair 'keeps trying to get out and they keep pulling him back in.'Vatican sources said the Pope was unmoved in his view that Blair had been wrong over Iraq. Ouch! Don't worry, there's still time and a few religions left. Can anyone say "circumcision?"
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I'd love to know how many hail marys Bliar has to say to be forgiven for sending troops into Iraq.
He better do a lot more than that to absolve himself of his shameful leadership.
Looks like herr dubyah's extreme base will now have a reason to hate Blair.
Thank God this soggy British crumpet has left. Now Chimpy is left only Pootie Poot and Castro.
-GSD
A must see... TONY BLAIRS MUSIC VIDEO
I'm converting to the Flying Spaghetti Monster church of latter day something or other.
Can I get an amen?
oops - http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/2007/06/tony-blairs-peace-music-video.html
LOL...The Holy Water will boil off his forehead at his christening and the three sixs will appear.
OK And Bic...I'll give you an Amen.
Bic,
Amen!
Bush's latest crony.
Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't that position go to an American citizen?
Here's two "amens". One from me and one from my cat.
Nice try, tony. I don't think changing lanes will keep you off the road to hell.
Hmm, maybe the pope should send Tony Blair on some sort of crusade to redeem himself. Since Iraq has already been taken, maybe him and some British troops could retake Ma'arra and eat all residents, just like the good old days.
circumcision? Nah---my people don't want him either. Most of us are anti-war as well!
"I love watching the pope bounce around in his little pope mobile, that's got to be hoot number one on my fucking CNN list, just? I want a whole show of the pope just bouncing around in that all terrain pope mobile with the three feet of Plexiglas around him. Boy there's faith in action!!!
You see you know he's really the spokesman for god, because only god's spokesman would need Plexiglas bulletproof glass - don't you all read that the same way?"
The Great Bill Hicks
Words to the Wise:
Quothing the sage Homer, "Once you go Vatican, you don't go back again!" End quoth.
Maybe Blair should put the truth back into The Blair Witch Project.
Praise Bob & Connie
)O(
He has always been a mass murdering Christian terrorist.
This is kind of odd. A woman I work with is a very devout Christian and likes to speak of the end times, all the time. Makes me wish sometimes that Rapture would hit sooner than later. Anyway just last week we were having another "discussion" and she mentioned that today Christians believe the anti Christ is already on earth. I asked her who it was and she said the only person who really fits the profile is Tony Blair. Especially if he becomes the head of the EU. She said the part missing is that the anti Christ is supposed to be a roman. Now Tony is becoming a Roman Catholic.
HMMM I plan to use this to really mess with her head. She claims he will not be seen as evil, will pull together a one world religion, lead Europe then the world and barter peace in the middle east before showing his true self.
Darn, now I am getting a little worried myself.
Tony, You're still going to hell...war criminal.
I think that is so ironic, this Christian notion that it is not his works that will mark him but his intent, his being itself. In other words, it doesn't matter if you promote peace and unite the world, etc. if you are evil, you are evil. What a primitive paradigm. We humans who live in the 3rd millennium believe that it is through a person's actions that he should be judged, that virtue is as virtue does. More importantly, a revelation of ill intent cannot negate previous works and their benign and fruitful effects. But then, I guess that kind of good/evil thinking is to be expected from a group of people who still believe that the end of all knowledge and goodness came 2000 years ago and that now we are simply slouching towards oblivion.
nativeokie @17
Your workmate, and many others here it seems, have a fundamental misunderstanding about the way the EU works. Her concern that Tony will become "the head of the EU" clearly demonstrates her ignorance on the topic. It's not surprising, really, since most fundies barely understand how our own government works....
Perhaps Blair has a few (Iraq) big sins (Iraq) that he is getting antsy about being (Iraq) forgiven.
Of course, in the Catholic Church, all he has to do is confess to a priest that he is sorry... and all is forgiven, right?
"Bless me father, for I have sinned. This is my first ever confession... I helped plan and execute an invasion and occupation of an innocent foreign country, basing my reasoning on lies, non-existant WMD's, using scare-tactics on my people...when the bottom line was really greed and power. The war is ongoing, and has claimed over a hundred thousand innocent lives so far, not to mention thousands of lives of British and American soldiers".
"Father, how many hail mary's do I have to say to completely absolve me for all guilt and responsibility for this sin?"
Isn't this how the Dark Ages began?
this is a no-brainer since the pope is a nazi and a child molestation enabler!
all blush did was enable the killing of a bunch of brown non-christians!
BennyP @ 22:
The dark ages started in 2000. I'm hoping someone shines a little light in 08.
IT'S SPAMMING SWALLOWING AGAIN!!!!!
I KNOW IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!
CAN YOU MAKE IT STOP!!!
I love it.
The Nazi Pope thinks Blair is unacceptably militarized.
Hope he took a Godly shit on Tony's face.
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He’s welcome to my long-unoccupied seat in the pew. Tony, just put the blinders on and kneel when told, you will blend right in with the flock.
wanderlust @ 23:
Correction: The Dark Ages began on November 22, 1963 @ 12:30 p.m.
[...] Already a founding member of the cult of war, Tony Blair will now toss of the shackles of the silly Anglican religion to go into the corporate world of Catholic nonsense: [...]
I think a conversion to the tribe would guarantee better press on the whole.
BennyP @ 22:
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the current united states is proof that the DARK AGES never really ended!
We have Torquemada Gonzales to go along with king chimpus the second.
Pope kicks Blair out of Vatican, calls him an 'asshole'. Alright, I made the second bit up:
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63218
I highly doubt the Jews would absolve Blair of his transgressions against humanity either. Please don't suggest the Jews would be okay with Blair... this man deserves to go to hell if there is one.
Well, if Blair is the anti-Christ, we'll know by keeping an eye on this:
The Rapture Index
Based or their well-known preference for pederastic pedophilia, it's surprising that any Brits are not Catholic.
Blair: "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I helped kill over 3,500 American GIs and countless Iraqi civilians. But I am against abortion.""
Il Papa: "You're in."
I can only hope that he never chooses to disgrace my people publicly by converting to judaism. But, if there's money to be made, Blair, Cheney, Bush, would do most anything, even attempt to convert to judaism.
War criminal Blair is a friend of Pope Benedickhead. No surprise there.
As a Catholic, I am glad to have him as a convert. I think he has done many miserable things, and I am interested in seeing what he does with his faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is actually very strict and restrictive on matters of war. And church social teachings on labor and just wages are the most stringent of the organized religions.
And, no, you don't just "confess to a priest." A confession must be made in earnest, and it is followed by an appropriate penance. Which usually involves some effort to render justice unto the wronged party. And, then, even with that, there is the matter of purgatory, in which your soul is purged from all damage that is done to it in the course of sinning.
In other words, if he is serious about his committment to the Church, he has a lot catching up to do. It's not like some "Born again" thing where he can just mutter some phrase and then go on committing crimes against humanity in righteous bliss.
This isn't anything against the Flying Spaghetti Monster or agnosticism or anything like that. You believe what you believe. It's most important to be true to the longings of your soul. The trick is finding your soul. And most people think their souls look like the Walmart Rollback guy and/or the abused child of an alcoholic, absentee, wife-beating father-figure... So I can understand why people would be so cynical.
I thought the Dark Ages began with the invention of the tanning lamp.
Gotta love popes for being anti-war, but Ratsinger probably has the deaths of many central american priests wieghing against him. Afterall, it was his job to leave them out to dry when they were labled "liberation theologists" and communists by the facist Reagan-supported Central American states in the 80s.
Ratsinger insists that you cannot separate your job from your personal life. Then why did he expect Father Romero to do the same? When it became clear that the Reagan-backed facists were killing innocent people from his church, the conservative Romero told the government to "stop the repression". This pegged him as a liberation theologist, something Ratsinger was dead set against. Without the support of the Vatican, many priests suffered a similar fate to Romero (shot in the head during mass).
IT's funny, Gorby credits Pope John Paul II with the fall of communism in eastern Europe. Meanwhile, how does Reagan thank him?: by funding rightist groups that were so extreme, they were pretty much nihilist psychopaths who threw nuns out of helicopters after raping them, charbroiling them and or torturing them. Don't believe it? Look here:
torture of nuns by US
Charbroiling of Nuns by Reagans friends
Raping and throwing nuns out of helicopters.
Why was Ratsinger so cold to the plight of these servants of God that he never spoke up when he was incharge of overseeing this area?
Here are his views on the matter.
He’ll get in, the Pope is just brow beating him into upping the dollar amount when he makes out his Absolution Check. Maybe some of you have written the more familiar Annulment Check -- accepted at all Catholic Parishes.
Based on some of the responses - a lot of you - if not all - understand very, very little of the Catholic Church. Yea, yea, yea, you can make the whole thing about Priests diddling kids - but the bottom line about that is this - that occurred when the US Catholic church said OK to Homosexual priests. That has now been addressed.
So yea - bring it on - I'm a liberal - but i can't ignore the basic principles of plumbing.
Oh - and this actually is big news - he's the 1st prime minister that is Catholic - in other words - he's saying that the queen isn't the head of the church - as she is under the laws of King Henry VIII
So if you put aside your hatred of Catholics for a moment - you'd actually realize that this is a big deal.
Oh - but you won't - cause you claim to be a liberal - and yet you hate.
One last thing you should know - All Catholics are Liberals. But of course they won't accept homosexuality or abortion - and frankly why should they.
But I guess on another lever if we only had homosexuals - then we wouldn't have to worry about abortion - so there it is - the solution to abortion - more gays and lesbians, and transexuals, and transgenders and fender benders and bed wetters.
Yea, Yea, Yea - I know this won't get published - but if you drop your guard for a moment - and quit calling me a homophobe - which is laughable if you ever met me - then maybe you'd understand that in the end - this is actually a big deal.
Oh - and to all of the numbnuts who say he's a war criminal - let me remind you that he effectively pulled out his troops 2 years ago - when he realized he had been fucked by W. He committed britain to the iraq war when W was riding on 85% popularity - which means that at least a few of you here supported him.
We humans who live in the 3rd millennium believe that it is through a person’s actions that he should be judged, that virtue is as virtue does. - wanderlust
Interestingly, this is what Jesus is quoted in the Christian Bible as saying "you shall know them by their fruits". I find it very odd how certain so-called Christians, who follow a perversion of Calvinism, seem to believe, as you describe, that certain people are, independent of their actions, entirely evil while others, no matter what they do, are the elected saints: odd considering how 100% opposite this world-view is from what the person they claim to be God's son actually is claimed to have said!
"..How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do".
My best guess is that he needs to remove the deal place on his soul by the devil.
Patrick @ 41:
no more often then straight.
Damage done. They are still counting the innocent civilians you twit.
Hitler pulled out of Normandie.
probably
I'm kind of dissappointed, I thought for sure he was going to become a Hassidic Rabbi.
Patrick @ 41:
And I'm Napoleon Bonaparte. Pleased to meet you.
One more reason for me to keep organized Catholicism at arms length or further. Bad enough we have a history of Inquisitions, scandals of bribery and economic corruption, exploitation of the American indigenous groups for over 400 years, raping and plundering along with corrupt Spanish governments of the Americas, pedophilia extravaganza...and now, we have corrupt sons of bitches joining up for the quick confession before they head off to meet their makers.
What a f*cking joke!
BFD...
The Catholic Church, or any other church for that matter, would not deny a rich man the chance of everlasting life in the hereafter as long as he tithes 10% of his income to the Church. Money is the forgiver.
Blair To Become Catholic; Looking For Post War Absolution
Bush To Become Alcoholic; Looking For Post War Absolut
HulksHeroes @ 48:
Sounds like you are describing the US. There are more american molesters than Catholic. Also, it is pretty hamfisted to equate Spain's action's with the church. Nowadays, the church are the good guys. BTW, History Undercover revealed that the inquisition reports were greatly exaggerated by protestants with gutenberg presses.
stonicus @ 10:
It's just you. Many non-Americans have been apponted "Special Envoy".
Patrick @ 41:
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pretty genial for a troll, I must admit. Lies and supposition to support specious accusations.
Well, you get points for sounding literate and good spelling, but that's about it.
what do you know about the Catholic Church? There were no gay issues 40 years ago, when I gave up wanting to be an altar boy. But that's ok.
Tony Blair knew from the gitgo that the shrub was lying (downing street memos). No exoneration for the pullout, either, 'cause IT AIN'T HAPPENED YET, either in Iraq or Afghanistan.
the spam filter is killing me!
half my posts are NOT showing up!
Count Blair is supporting the Vatican agenda to conquer the world. There is no religion Mr. Blair, you will end up worshiping the image of the Pope. The Pope is desperate to put his dirty feet and hands in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and exalt himself as G-d.
Is this fiction or real?
My head is spinning!
Post war absolution at the hands of an ex-nazi? Wow! Now that's something with real value. Won't save him from war crimes tribunals.
I think the pedophilia comments are a bit misguided. According to some studies about 1 in 6 boys gets molested. The vast majority of these cases take place in the home. Most of the perpetrators are male, usually parents (90% of the time), but often other family members. Outside of the home, the perpetrators are authority figures (teachers, law enforcement, pastors, etc.).
People who are motivated by hate of one form or another usually come to one of two erroneous conclusions: A) Gay men are pedophiles. Or B) Priests are pedophiles. (If you are a fundamentalist, Priests are Gay pedohpiles). Neither or these conclusions are supported by the actual statistics.
The most logical conclusion is that fathers are the chief perpetrators of sexual abuse. And, beyond that, you should be suspicious of men who date or marry women with children.
But, again, any sane person would recognise that it is grossly unjust to say that "straight" men are pedophiles (even though they are the worst offenders). And, I'd expect that most straight men would take offense at such a mean-spirited accusation. But, of the three identified groups (Catholic priests, gay men, and straight men), straight men are the overwhelming #1 abusers of little boys.
The more logical conclusion to draw from these statistics is that patriarchical society (and the Church deserves its share of the blame) tends to produce sex-crime perpetrators. And that sexual abuse is part and parcel of American culture.
All this crap about priests and homosexuals is just a distraction from the real issue. That the fundamental paradigm of sexuality in America is a violent one. At the extreme edge, you have pedophiles. In the middle, you have the vast normal range of men who abuse women and women who internalize harrassment and abuse. And, you have a small group of people (feminists, queers, progressives, some Christians, etc) who actually question the underlying social pathology.
So stop acting like self-righteous idiots.
Once again Catholic Inquisition will sweep the world just so the evil Pope can become the little g-d on earth. He is insecure, narcissistic, and depressed. His days are numbered soon in hell.
Blair can join the pope too in hell.
ysbaddaden @ 38:
y,
Shows what I know, I thought it started with the practice of tarring and feather miscreants.
Many Catholics are liberals, but not all. There are plenty of conservative Catholics out there conveniently willing to overlook Bush's cozying up to the anti-Catholic forces at Oral Roberts U, his execution of Texas convicts (so much for pro-life) and his going against the advice of John Paul II NOT to attack Iraq. They were single-issue voters who voted for Bush pretty much solely because he was anti-abortion. There's still been only one Catholic president of the U.S. as well as plenty of prejudice against Catholics out there, as well as on this site.
Cushty!
If Blair is really the anti-Christ, then it should show up here, no?
The Rapture Index
The Pope's new poodle!
Really, even if he is trying to soothe his troubled conscience. Each and every person, especially prominent war supporters, who's willing to publicly admit that the war is wrong adds greater credibility to the anti-war movement. Even if their support is only nominal.
Of course, it is too little too late. And, I wish that he was with us way back in 2003 when we were marching to prevent the war from happening. But back then, we were a minority voice, even though we were right. Even the DNC's corporate darling Hillary Clinton hasn't come out against the war in any substantial way.
Maybe with Tony Blair, Colin Powell, and the other disgraced politicians hopping on the Anti-Iraq War bandwagon, we'll be able to convince Hillary to bring the troops home.
Bic @ 6:
I think that's a RAmen.
Da Spyda @ 46:
I'da prefered a Rapping Rabbi.
Silly Rabbi, shiksas are for goyim.
Another reason to be glad I left the church.
Why was my last comment not published? Anyways, please keep the Jews out of this. Blair wouldn't get any sort of forgiveness from us...
Anais @ 64:
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Please don't associate any -ism with this site that belongs to a posting person. It make you sound like that lying asshole howie kurtz.
Captain America @ 72:
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are you a spammer, like they seem to think I am? just asking :)
I personally am getting sick of it. I hope they fix the thing so they don't have to keep fetching and fixing the posts.
This new thing is supposed to be an improvement!?!
[Have you ever done something major dealing with computers and not had little foul ups here and there? There's always an adjustment period. I know you are upset, but whining isn't really any help. Thanks for understanding-Sitemonitor]
Doesn't Catholicism have enough problems already?
What a disappointment Blair turned out to be. In the aftermath of 9/11, I was struck by how intelligent he sounded in comparison to our own moron-in-chief. But he sold his soul, and sold his country down the river. I guess religion can do that to a person.
Too late.... He would need more hail Marys and Our Fathers than he could possibly recite before his death.
What a sad pathetic man. He had so much promise and squandered it all. How the mighty (and foolish) have fallen!
I think he will end up on CNN.
Amen to that, BaScOmBe.
Every community has its variation of the dittohead: Loud, obnoxious, hateful, and unthinking. I like to think that C&L has fewer of these types. But once something gets popular (in this case "progressive" politics), it inevitably does attract people who are obsessed with the caricature of prejudices, mottos, and styles that is put forward as a shorthand for critical thinking by lazy journalists...
Instead of critical thinking in the service of human dignity, you end up with the occasional chorus of haters.
But this is not and should not be mistaken as a clear representation the C&L community. Free speech means you have to tolerate a certain amount of hate speech.
Funny thing is Prince Vladislaus Dracula also converted to Roman Catholocism (from Eastern Orthodox).
He did it to regain his throne, although first he had to murder his brother Radu the Handsome.
Even after Dracula retook his throne, he only held on to it for a few months before he disappeared in battle. His body's never been found.
Oh wait, there he is, in Madam Tussaud's museum.
Also, the Loch Ness monster is rumored to be Jehovah's Witness.
Somebody spotted him with Prince going door to door with copies of the Watchtower.
Patrick said: "But of course they won’t accept homosexuality or abortion - and frankly why should they."
And you wonder why Catholics aren't so popular? I don't accept the Pope, and frankly why should I?
So is Blair going to battle with Bush to be the one Sith apprentice?
Blair seemed like an okay guy, when did he totally lose his mind? If I had to guess, it was a little before he said that invading Iraq would be a good idea.
Religion should be a personal thing. It should not be part of politics. I have not objection to anyone's religion, provided I DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT. What I mean is, worship away, in private. Once you start bothering me with your views, or bringing YOUR faith into the public arena, you've got an enemy.
If he is going to be envoy to the Mid-East, he should convert to Islam and don't we in the U.S. have a citizen capable of being an envoy to the Mid-East? Blair seems destined to never learning that associating with dumya is not going to rate him very highly when the history book are written about 2001-2009. Very sad. A man who had so much to offer and squandered his talents to a despot like dumya.
Bic @ 6:
The Pastafrasarians will never let Tony in. He has something wrong with his noodle.
Gay men molest little boys?
That is completely untrue. Perverts molest children, not gay people. The homosexual community I know is as sickened by pedophelia as zny hetero community, except the many heteros in our communities that molest children that is.
Pedophelia and homosexuality are not the same. Period.
my point proven
I am a catholic and a liberal - i have been posting here for 2 years under the name patrick: husband, father, liberal.
my point was proven during this string - you hate catholics - period. you cannot for the life of you like a catholic or the catholic church. it's impossible.
but yet you know very little about catholics.
my point was simple when i first posted at #43 - catholic or not - this is big news as it marks the end of the monarchy.
it's the same as if we elected a non-bornagain/methodist/mason in this country.
check it out.
2 non-masons - both assasinated.
hmmmmmmmm
who hates?
ya - and picking out a bad priest or a bad pope is pretty much like me picking out a bad democrat - and there are a lot of them.
I hardly believe for a second that my mother as a catholic had anything to do with or would approve with the likes of the diddling priests. but she still believes in her faith.
would you quit the democratic party over the bad ones in the group.
yea - and thanks for your responses - you've confirmed my suspicions.
you are not liberals - it's your way - with no disagreement - hate, hate, hate. you sound like dick cheney more than you know.
Jay @ 55:
I think the only important consideration is the post be given to a non-asshole, but where to find one inside the cabal???
Patrick: I don't hate the Catholic Church, I just find it idiotic.
Bic @ 6:
I guess I could give you an amen although I personally think it is a-mess.
If the poodle is Catholic, I'm a bear in the woods.
The Special Envoy to the Middle East is NOT a U.S. position. He would be the representative/envoy from a group of nations working on the issue, I can't recall the exact name of the group but it is made up of Britain, USA, Russia and France, if I am not mistaken. And it is not through the U.N. Please CORRECT .
My advice to the catholic church - once my own home - is - Don't take him.
(interesting that there's an extra character here that I can't edit out - a slash by the apostrophe)
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BigTobacco @ 61:
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Is it idiotic to point out that the pope took the very bishop, the one who suppressed investigation into the 20+ years of child molestation (including girls) by members of the catholic clergy, an placed that bishop oh his staff?
I guess, just like boosh, the pope rewards loyalty and criminality.
strange similarity, don't you think?
He is a fucking moron.
Well, in the Catholic religion murder is a mortal sin. Tony is bound for hell in the Catholic hereafter.
mls @ 100:
Ha ha ha. He only has to apologise. Not only that Catholic baptism, I believe, = absolution from all sins, if you convert with sincerity...
No hell for Tony on the 'Poodle' years...At least not from the Catholic Mary/God/Jesus...
BUSH'S MAN IN GAZA?
Europeans Skeptical about Blair as Mideast Envoy
The Bush administration is considering appointing outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as special envoy for the Middle East Quartet. If only they had told the Europeans.
It might seem like a basic principle of diplomacy to let your allies know before you nominate someone to represent them. However this appears to not have been the case with the Bush administration's reported backing of Tony Blair to be the Middle East Quartet's special envoy for Palestinian governance (more...).
According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin had not been informed of plans to nominate Blair for the post -- even though German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier currently represents the EU in the Quartet. Germany currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Blair is a controversial choice for the position, given his role in the Iraq war and his close relationship to Bush, and he is unpopular in much of the Middle East. Politicians in both Berlin and Brussels fear that Blair would be an unacceptable go-between for many Arabs.
"I cannot imagine that Blair, as one of the main players in the Iraq war, would be able to win confidence in the Middle East," Martin Schulz, chairman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, told DER SPIEGEL. The EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana was also surprised by the suggestion and is skeptical about Blair's nomination.
The position has been empty since the Quartet's last envoy, former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, stepped down in April 2006. Ban Ki-moon's predecessor as UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, favored former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer for the post. The Middle East Quartet consists of the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the United States, and is involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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article continues:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,490501,00.html
You mean to say he finds one religion "wrong" and another one "right"? How retarded is that? Most smart people go straight to atheism or possibly agnosticism without suspending a whole new set of disbeliefs... I wonder who he's trying to impress.
Blair turning Catholic? What a laugh! He will be able to atone for all his sins including his gay relationship with Bush. They are both acouple of homsexuals who haven't come out of the closet yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orp9qCaj8Bw
Patrick (43 and 91). Blair wont convert until hes out of office so your "end monarchy" argument is a non starter. He will be a private citizen. And that all catholics are liberals...hehehe.
This is utter nonsense. There is NO magic wand, Catholic or otherwise, that can take away the darkness of the deeds done by these men of the old world.
First, and foremost, this is setting the stage for something down the road. Quite frankly, I smell a RAT...........or a RATZINGER. Blair could care less, and knows true atonement......at-one-ment, can't really be GIVEN by any person. One needs to make his or her own spiritual journey, plain and simple.
POWER CORRUPTS, AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY. Wait a year, more or less, and we'll all see what this is really about.
If this was a pure intention, it would be done in complete humility, and OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE.
Was it Saint Paul who said, when you pray, pray in secret............this is a dog and pony show.
And i also think hes a bad choice for trying to make peace between the israelis and palistinians because he so clearly is on the israeli side.
Satans little helper @ 104:
Neither can find the knob?
Pyed Typer @ 89:
May his noodley appendages never touch Blair.
RAmen aaaarrrrrrr
bill w @ 94:
Bob could give the Flying Spaghetti Monster an All-Mighty kick in the meatballs.
I've never liked Blair, there is something about him that doesn't sit right with me. He comes across as intelligent and even personable. But he would sell anyone down the river to get ahead.
My God, and hasn't he just.
He wont be missed in this part of England, believe you me.
ysbaddaden @ 110:
My gods balls are bigger than your gods are.
There was news media reports back in 2000 era, about the late "Pope" feared George{6}Walker{6}Bushjr{6}, born July {6th}, 194{6}, served {6} years as govenor of Texas, was 4{6th} governor of Texas, announced his bid for white house in 1999 {invert those 9's and one gets 666.....was the feared prophesised "anti-christ", he is often depicted in banners as the "Great Satan", by foreign demonstrators..., one might wonder has Blair had a religious moment where he might have realized he just maybe was serving someone of less than desirable greatness....and if so I might wish for some "religious conversion or salvation....time will tell if he takes the offered UN appointment old George has rumored too have offered him, then his conversion too Catholicism is mere ruse since bible says those who take the beasts mark will worship him and follow him too the end.., I often wondered what this on the hand and forehead mark could be, and many have speculated over the centuries but imagine all those 29% die hard who support Bush today, went into those voting booths with their hand cast that vote for him, and in their minds refuse too abandon him one can venture too say they have his mark on their hand by voting and worship him in their minds blindly without utter devotion....., another thing that marks Bush is how the right wing preachers {false prophets will abound} like the late Jerry Falwell, and the other presently living seem too worship him too the bitter end, as the bible says, he will be worshiped messiah like by his followers...., but is it not strange that in Bush's 7th year of power, he has lost his power, lost congress/senate, is considered a lame duck president by 71% of us, is despised by majority of the world as evil, warmongering, torturer, leads a great army, considered by some too be a great communicator too at least his 29%, as governor Texas he refused too commute the death sentence of a woman who allegedly had repented, found god, laughed and scoffed at her religious conversion...., let her die, but he did commute one death sentence as governor of Texas, a mulitple serial killer, unrepentant, allegedly a devil worshiper, Lucas.....how strange he gave mercy too a devil worshiper but not too one who found god...
Lakeguy @ 112:
That's only because my God is a Goddess.
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