What's in It for Blair???

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

It makes sense that the Bush junta believed it's in their interest to 
invade Iraq, thought and still think that they can get away with it, 
and believe that they can't back down now without losing 
"credibility."

What doesn't make sense at all is Blair's continuing devotion to the 
Bush project -- especially at this point when it's become clear that 
it's the most unpopular war in history and he's facing revolts from 
his party and cabinet even.  What's in it for Blair???

Without the UN SC mandate for the war, Blair has nothing to gain by 
going along with Bush and probably a lot to lose given UK public 
opinions, _even if_ the coalition of the willy-nilly manage to go to 
war without the UN and conquer all of Iraq relatively quickly.
-- 
Yoshie

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