Lapdog, yours is always the voice of calm reasoned debate and your contributions to these threads should be highly valued. Sadly, many of the posters here are not amenable to such an approach. They see this as a party struggle Libs vs Labor, left vs right as evidenced by the comments about Blair.
Nothing could be further from the truth. We're talking about morality and the individual personalities of our leaders. Blair was a huge disappointment, a liar and a hypocrite and bears as much culpability for the mess of Iraq as Bush.
