http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7426647.stm
Quote:
Mr Blair, who is now a peace envoy to the Middle East, told Time magazine that religious belief had given him "strength" while in power.
He is launching a "faith foundation" in New York on Friday.
Mr Blair, who recently converted to Catholicism, said: "Faith is part of our future, and faith and the values it brings with it are an essential part of making globalisation work."
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Politics and Religion ought to have no links or crossings, as in the separation of church and state. The same can be said of 'globalisation' (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean). And since when was religion or faith a prerequisite for morality anyway?
Considering who blair is, I think he takes the piss as 'peace envoy to the middle east'. Such a title must be really galling to many, many people around the world.
Peace envoy indeed, just who was it who conned the british public into believing 'imminent WMD attack; saddam has 45 minute capability' as a pretext for war? There were many other valid and long-term reasons to try and oust saddam, yet tony had to lie, or rather, not quite tell
all the truth.
I wonder if this is some sort of public expiation for the trouble he was central to inflicting upon the world?