Blair On Leadership

Tony Blair had some inciteful things to say about leadership:

When I hear people say: "I want the old Tony Blair back, the one who cares", I tell you something.
I don't think as a human being, as a family man, I've changed at all.
But I have changed as a leader.
I have come to realise that caring in politics isn't really about "caring".
It's about doing what you think is right and sticking to it.
So I do not minimise whatever differences some of you have with me over Iraq and the only healing can come from understanding that the decision, whether agreed with or not, was taken because I believe, genuinely, Britain's future security depends on it.

There has been no third way, this time.

Change a word or two and that could be GW Bush saying that. Libs do not understand that if a decision is thought out and believed, a true leader sticks by that decision. I know that Kerry is "nuanced" and all that bullshit, but looking at Kerry's campaign and back through his Senate days, I'd say nuanced means that one is afraid to take or stay with a position.