Rice, black woman / Blair, white man ... same song sheet.

In a July 28th television interview with Jim Lehrer, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ....

“When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill. And they want to kill in the name of a perverted ideology that really is not Islam, but they somehow want to claim that mantle to say that this is about some kind of grievance. This isn't about some kind of grievance. This is an effort to destroy, rather than to build. And until everybody in the world calls it by name — the evil that it is — stops making excuses for them, then I think we're going to have a problem.“

Tony Blair speaking to a Labour Conference on July 14th just after the 7/7 bombings said ....

What we are confronting here is an evil ideology.

This is a religious ideology... Those who kill in its name believe genuinely that in doing it, they do God's work; they go to paradise.

They demand the elimination of Israel; the withdrawal of all Westerners from Muslim countries, irrespective of the wishes of people and government; the establishment of effectively Taleban states and Sharia law in the Arab world en route to one caliphate of all Muslim nations.

......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.

Oh! ...er ... Condi is in London for 25 minutes on her latest drive by diplomacy trip to give Tony his orders ..... Q . Will he get "bathroom" time ?