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Sort of defining one. in britain at the time about tony blair and his rise to power. about tony blair as a politician. he was seen as this incredibly effective, incredibly nimble politician who was great at getting elected but who was also so thoroughly and desperately a politician that it was a little bit unnerving. but maybe being craven, maybe being that much of a politician was part of how skilled he was. key to tony blair's rise to ç power was the fact he was able to get the all-powerful rupert murdoch media machine behind him in the late '90s. rupert murdoch was just as right wing then...

Prime minister. labour got to be in charge of briblt for the next decade. george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. the idea of the murdoch primary everybody talked about it and it's the real thing. you have to win rupert murdoch's endorsement if you want to wi...

And the country can't sustain them after we have gone. and that's why this is a tremendous waste of money. we've never been able to show that it has any positive connection to our mission in afghanistan. it's time for to us pull that big infrastructure money out of afghanistan and put it in the united states, where we desperately need it. >> now, i know road building is not a core part of the u.s. military's mission, but i imagine that the military might not want to give up this pile of money if only because it's a big pile of money. is the pentagon against this move you're trying to make here...

Projects, we cannot secure them while we're building them. and the country can't sustain them after we have gone. and that's why this is a tremendous waste of money. we've never been able to show that it has any positive connection to our mission in afghanistan. it's time for to us pull that big infrastructure money out of afghanistan and put it in the united states, where we desperately need it. >> now, i know road building is not a core part of the u.s. military's mission, but i imagine that the military might not want to give up this pile of money if only because it's a big pile of money. i...

Prime minister. labour got to be in charge of briblt for the next decade. george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. the idea of the murdoch primary everybody talked about it and it's the real thing. you have to win rupert murdoch's endorsement if you want to wi...