Charmaine Yoest has first hand accounts of some of the puzzling and disheartening reaction of some of those in London. Posted by Jody at July 8, 2005 12:41 AM | TrackBackThey eyed him warily, but one of them couldn't resist and blurted out aggressively, "It's Tony Blair's fault! They've killed 100,000 people -- it's like a boomerang." Later she repeated this, talking about "killing innocent people" and "invading other peoples' country . . ."When we asked her the question about the calm, she shrugged too. "We're used to it," she replied. "Americans get patriotic over anything silly."
We were starting to see a pattern.