Two obvious reasons to be thankful: his denialism with respect to climate change deserves a rebuke. And his almost blind support for president Bush, regardless of the quality of the policies he was implementing in Iraq, made him neither a good ally nor a genuine supporter of an effective war effort. Bush has now lost Blair and Howard as too-stalwart allies.
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