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Brits Stunned By Tony Blair's US Peace Prize
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 1) -- The announcement that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to receive the prestigious Liberty Medal for his "relentless" work in conflict resolution has been greeted with gasps of surprise in his homeland. Many Brits regard Blair -- who stepped down as prime minister in 2007 -- as a deeply flawed figure, believing he exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in order to win support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A Daily Mail survey in January found that 80 percent of people thought he lied in the run-up to the war, and 70 ...
Women's Vote Will Likely Decide British Elections
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMany things are still uncertain as we move toward the British general elections later this spring. But here's one thing everyone agrees on: This election will be decided by women. Signs of women's strategic importance are everywhere you look. Both candidates for prime minister have assiduously courted the "Internet vote" by reaching out to the well-educated, middle-class stay-at-home moms who populate popular sites like Mumsnet. (There's even a new tag to identify these voters -- "cybermums" -- which bears resemblance to America's "soccer moms" of campaigns past.) ...
Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe war in Iraq just isn't going gently into the night, is it? Sunday's parliamentary election took place amid a backdrop of mortar, grenade and bomb attacks in Baghdad and other major cities. The good news is that the elections went ahead and people voted. But the extreme political fragmentation that characterizes the country -- with some 6,000 candidates, from more than 80 parties, chasing a mere 325 parliamentary seats -- means that whatever coalition government results will be necessarily fragile. And even as President Obama praised Iraqi voters for their bravery in casting their ballots, ...
CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritain's top military intelligence agency -- MI5 -- has been accused of covering up its complicity in the torture of a U.K. citizen. The case has created a political firestorm in this country, reigniting controversy over government secrecy, the morality of torture and Britain's special relationship with the United States. The case concerns one Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed is a U.K. resident who was detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6½ years imprisoned in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay. Mohamed has long alleged that he was ...
Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been waiting for ever since Blair's government joined the United States in invading Iraq in 2003. And in a telling sign of just how torn up the U.K. is over this man -- and this conflict -- he was alternately compared to both Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon as he took the stand. ...
Blair Staunchly Defends Decision to Invade Iraq
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 29) -- Star witness Tony Blair took the stand today in Britain's ongoing inquiry into why Britain joined the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- and why its forces were so ill-prepared for the chaos that followed Saddam Hussein's overthrow. The quizzing of the former prime minister has drawn the country's rapt attention as the climax to the formal questioning of dozens of diplomats, spy bosses and military chiefs since November. Blair arrived at the inquiry two hours early under heavy security and was driven into a back entrance at London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. A crowd of ...
British Launch Inquiry Into Iraq War
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 25) -- Almost seven years after Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and amidst a still blazing public debate, a government-appointed panel has launched a sweeping investigation into why the country went to war and why British forces were so poorly prepared for the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein. "We've waited a long time for this," says Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq in 2004. "I want to know why our troops were sent to Iraq in the first place, why we unquestioningly followed America, and why our ...
Five Things We Learned at the European Summit
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyA few weeks back, I posted about some incipient trouble brewing within the EU. Late last week, European leaders met for a two-day summit to push forward on a number of those procedural and policy issues. Here are five noteworthy things to come out of that meeting: ...
Is the EU in Trouble? (And Does America Care?)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIt might seem curious that just three weeks after Ireland voted overwhelmingly to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, there's already fresh talk of the demise of the European Union. But despite eight years of painstaking work, some forces appear to be conspiring against the EU.European heads of state are slated to meet toward the end of this month to finalize the treaty, which makes a number of institutional changes to the EU charter following the inclusion of 10 new member states back in 2004. The problem is that in order for it to take effect, the treaty needs to be ratified by all 27 members. And not ...
Kennedy Memoir Already a Bestseller Even Before September Release
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySen. Ted Kennedy's $8 million memoir, "True Compass," is being rushed for release on Sept. 14. The publisher, Hachette Book Group, plans to send 1.5 million copies to bookstores. According to pre-release orders by online booksellers, the Kennedy book is already a bestseller. "True Compass" was originally slated for publication in 2010. Hachette moved up the release date to this October after Kennedy was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Three weeks ago, the publisher decided to again move up publication to mid-September. The manuscript was only just completed "earlier this summer," a ...
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