Some may be interested to read what a quite conservative German newspaper (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) has written recently about Blair/Iraq/London. Yes, it is really conservative, but keep in mind McGrath's warning that European conservatives don't look so conservative to Americans.

"Blair is a master at denying claims that no one has made and making demands to which no one can object. First, he denies that the Iraq war has been a cause of terrorism and then he demands that we combat terrorism, condemn its methods and pull out its roots. Indeed, the only concession Blair has made is to admit that Iraq is becoming a recruiting ground for terrorists...The Iraq war was neither approved by the UN nor backed by the Arab world, and that's why people are able to propagandistically denounce it as an 'imperial crusade'. It's true that this war did not create terrorism, but it has encouraged it." (I pinched the translation from DER SPIEGEL)

Wolfgang