Blair protest at Yale graduation (photo)

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080525/480/40f12ae900814b82b6457eb61d9c7b16/

While Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair delivers the Class Day address to graduating Yale seniors on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Sunday, May 25, 2008 members of the audience and others hold up protest signs. Blair is scheduled to teach a course at Yale for the 2008-2009 academic year.
(AP Photo/Bob Child)

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-blair0526.artmay26,0,4536970.story?track=rss

Tony Blair Sidesteps Iraq War At Yale Class Day

Tony Blair shared some advice and reminisced about his younger, bohemian years on Sunday at Yale's Class Day in New Haven. But the former British Prime minister made no mention of Iraq, the war that may have caused his political downfall.

A few seniors in the audience raised the topic themselves. About a dozen stood during Blair's speech, in their black gowns, holding signs that read "No War" on one side, "Peace Now," on the other. Having come of age during a war that Blair helped start, they felt moved to protest his presence, however silently.

"You can't teach democracy through the barrel of a gun," said Frances Kelley, a religious studies major from Shreveport, La., who stood during Blair's address.

(snip)

"Be prepared to fail as well as succeed because it is failure not success that defines character," he said. "I spent years trying to be a politician, failing at every attempt and nearly gave up. I know you're thinking: I should have."

(end snips)

Not quite what I was thinking, but it will do.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Yes - the fool

partly responsible for up to million Iraqi deaths and quadrupling the price of oil.

Fortunately being a fool isn't a defence at the Hague.

[hisownpetard]

2. Couldn't Yale do any better than that? I mean - Tony Blair??

[CTyankee]

3. Blair is teaching a course at Yale in the fall.

For some reason, he and Yale are quite thick these days...

[hisownpetard]

4. Guess he couldn't find a job in Britain.