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07/17/2005:

"Blair: we cannot change course"

Tony Blair warned yesterday it would be 'catastrophic' to believe al-Qaeda could be foiled by changing British foreign policy, in a robust defence to charges that the bombing was provoked by the Iraq war.
The Prime Minister hit back at suggestions that the London atrocities were linked to injustices in the Middle East, saying it was the 'almost-devilish logic' of extremists to play on western guilt.

Their propaganda was clever and sophisticated, he told an audience of Labour party delegates in London: 'It plays on our tolerance and good nature; it exploits the tendency to guilt of the developed world - as if it is our behaviour that should change, that if we only tried to work out and act on their grievances, we could lift this evil; that if we changed our behaviour, they would change theirs.

'Their cause is not founded on injustice. It is founded on a belief, one whose fanaticism is such that it can't be moderated. It can't be remedied. It has to be stood up to.'
Full: guardian.co.uk

Yeah Tony, as if. That last statement certainly pertains to the monstrously 'evil ideology' which you yourself represent. Ask the Iraqis about your 'tolerance and good nature.'