[skydaypat]

Can you write anything that isn't hyperbolic or hate-filled? So JP Morgan is aiding in the reconstruction of Iraq? Are there any major American investment bank that aren't? Blair isn't advising them on investing in Iraq or anything to do with the Middle East.

Blair is playing a hugely important and unconnected role in the Middle East with the support of the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia as well as the Israelis and Palestinians. He has stated he is "cautiously optimistic" of peace, as in Northern Ireland, by the end of the year. Whilst you may not be sympathetic to his achievements as Prime Minister, the Quartet role is unpaid and the man's got a big mortgage! I really don't understand any moral objections, except from the most staunch anti-capitalists, to Blair's one-day-a-month advisory role.