God Will Judge Me, Says Prime Minister Tony Blair
Robert Paul Reyes
March 04, 2006
President George W. Bush, like most American politicians, frequently invokes god in interviews, speeches and press conferences, but it's rare to hear a European politician make reference to the Almighty.
European politicians realize that politics and religion are a combustible mix, and they have the good sense to abstain from "god talk."
American politicians and Muslim terrorists have a penchant for using god to justify and explain their actions.
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of England, unwisely invoked the Supreme Being, in defending his decision to join President George W. Bush in invading Iraq.
In an interview with Great Britain's ITV1 he said: "That decision has to be taken and has to be lived with, and in the end there is a judgment that...I think if you have faith about these things then you realize that judgment is made by other people, If you believe in God, it's made by God as well."
Blair's comment raised a ruckus in England, he might as well have cracked a risque joke or poked fun at the queen.
It's not god that Blair has to answer to, it's his countrymen who deserve a good explanation why he sent British boys and girls to die in the deserts of Iraq,
If only George W. Bush were also criticized every time he ended one of his partisan speeches by invoking god.
It's proper to close a prayer or sermon by saying "God Bless America", but it's unseemly and divisive to conclude a stump political speech by uttering those religious words.
European politicians realize that politics and religion are a combustible mix, and they have the good sense to abstain from "god talk."
American politicians and Muslim terrorists have a penchant for using god to justify and explain their actions.
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of England, unwisely invoked the Supreme Being, in defending his decision to join President George W. Bush in invading Iraq.
In an interview with Great Britain's ITV1 he said: "That decision has to be taken and has to be lived with, and in the end there is a judgment that...I think if you have faith about these things then you realize that judgment is made by other people, If you believe in God, it's made by God as well."
Blair's comment raised a ruckus in England, he might as well have cracked a risque joke or poked fun at the queen.
It's not god that Blair has to answer to, it's his countrymen who deserve a good explanation why he sent British boys and girls to die in the deserts of Iraq,
If only George W. Bush were also criticized every time he ended one of his partisan speeches by invoking god.
It's proper to close a prayer or sermon by saying "God Bless America", but it's unseemly and divisive to conclude a stump political speech by uttering those religious words.
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