CarolC as a Brit I find it amazing that you can tell me that Blair is addressing the nation. My TV is on and I have watched Bush address America but I am waiting for Blair to tell me what's happening.

I did post a day or so ago on your thread about Blair being a statesman and what we brits felt about him. I feel more and more that he barely scrapes through as the monkey to anyone else's organ grinder.

I feel that he re-acts rather than acts, that he is a follower rather than a leader.

At the moment he looks like a fool. If he is important in this conflict and Britain is an equal partner then he should have addressed us at the same time as Bush addressed America. Thatcher and Reagan could do it why can't he.

With you in your pain over 11 Sept.