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former labor party member now

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independent or he's running his own

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party called respect George Galloway

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joins us now often a vocal critic of the

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government George uh happy day for you

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sad day for the country what do you

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think you you've been an Ardent critic

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of uh Blair's involvement in the war in

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Iraq well the reason that he's going is

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the Iraq it's carved on his political

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Tombstone as his name is carved on the

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names of hundreds of thousands of

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people's tombstones whose lives he shed

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as a result of the bizarre special

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relationship that he had with George W

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bush no one since Monica Linsky has had

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as close a relationship to an American

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president as Tony Blair has and I'm

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afraid that's what's done for him he uh

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was seen by the vast majority of people

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in this country to have lied us into a

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war with catastrophic results if the if

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the war had gone well people would have

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forgiven the lies but it's gone

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catastrophically

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badly watches CNN can can tell what what

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then is his legacy I mean there've been

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some good things as well the econom is

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in pretty good shape uh Northern Ireland

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we just watched that very historic event

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this

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week sure uh even Hitler built motorways

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you know uh it would be hard with 10

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years in power presiding over the fifth

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biggest economy in the world and with

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three Landslide parliamentary majorities

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to have achieved absolutely nothing in

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fact he's achieved more than that uh

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Ireland uh the Scottish and Welsh

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parliaments the principle of a minimum

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wage though Long established in the

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United States even though it's in

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Britain at a poverty level these are all

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feathers in his cap but I'm afraid

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they're they're drowned in the blood of

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the hundreds of thousands of people who

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have been killed in the war in Iraq uh

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some of them are own soldiers far more

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of them the soldiers of the United

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States uh armed forces and of course

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we're now so deep into this swamp it's

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difficult to know as Shakespeare put it

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whether it's bloodier to go on or to go

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over well you have a you have a lot of

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support uh Grassroots support among your

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own constituency but it's unlikely the

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respect part is going to win power next

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time it's going to be the Tories or it's

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going to be Gordon Brown how do you look

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look at the

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future well you know I'm the popularizer

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of the phrase that Blair and brown are

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two cheeks of the same backside and whil

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I'm temperament Mally inclined towards

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the left cheek uh in fact uh they'll be

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pretty well identical and that means

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labor will be going down to defeat at

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the next election and that's uh in a

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sense Mr Blair's final Legacy to his own

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party he haved its numbers he's reduced

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its share of the pole to lower than it

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was during the Faulkland War when Mrs

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Thatcher in her pump and he's let the

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Tories back in almost certainly and Mr

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Brown will get the Prime Minister ship

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only in time to lose it I'm afraid