Question: What did EIR mean in the briefing when they talked about Blair giving Bush "hard love"? To treat him like a drug addict, worse than a reform drunk?

LaRouche: What do we do about the drug addiction of Blair and Bush. It's not really that. Bush is a man of, shall we say, extremely limited intellectual powers, and also a man of limited sanity. He is a virtual puppet, or has been a virtual puppet of this crowd, which has taken him over increasingly. What is happening in the United States today, and I'm sort of in the middle of it, is that you have groups. You should notice, for example, the conflict between Gen. (ret.) Brent Scowcroft, who is the former key advisor for the Bush administration, and Colin Powell, who is Secretary of State -- now Powell has been almost used up by his adaptation to this Bush administration, but nonetheless -- they represent a current inside the Bush administration, or advising it, which is struggling to free the administration from the grip of these wild-eyed fascists associated with Cheney and Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc. So therefore, you have a struggle inside this administration.

You also have a similar but more complicated struggle in terms of international relationships. The resistance to Blair inside the Labor Party in Britain exceeds by far anything of open resistance to Bush in the US. Blair is in trouble, For certain reasons, the UK is more aware of the dangers to itself and to the world, of what the United States is now doing under Bush, than is true of leading circles in the US. So therefore you have a complicated relationship. Blair is trying to adapt himself to the Bush administration, which he may not particularly like, but he's adapting to it under pressure from certain circles in Britain, which are encouraging him. However, the majority that I know, even among leading Tories, as well as among the Labor leaders like Tom Dayell, for example, the oldest member of the Parliament, they are opposed to what Blair and Bush are doing on practical as well as other grounds.

So there's no simple relationship between Blair and Bush of that type, as many people say. It's not that simple. You have a virtual puppet inside the White House. You have contending forces inside the US trying to wrest control of that puppet from one to the other, including the old George Bush, Number #41 as he's called, who has very little direct control over the behavior of his son, who's the current president. You have that kind of situation. So don't try to oversimplify the problem. What we have to do, obviously, is break the control of the fascists such as Cheney over the Bush administration. That's the minimal immediate practical requirements, and that's what we're working on, among other things. Many of us from different standpoints agree that must be done. We must stop this process.

We also know that you cannot stop this process unless you get rid of the Cheney factor. So, therefore, various people are conducting investigations aimed at impeaching Cheney on grounds of his financial dealings with Halliburton and so forth, and George Shultz with Bechtel out on the West Coast. So therefore, there's a movement to impeach the Vice-President of the United States, a movement that may not succeed in getting an impeachment, which is intended to break the White House free of control of the influence of Cheney. Under those conditions, with a movement toward a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by having the United States and others forces in Israel accept an independent Palestinian state as a way of slowing down or reversing the conflict with the Arab world. This is the kind of thing that's going on, as opposed to what you may hear from the newspapers and so forth. I'm involved in this, but won't go into details. You can read about it in our press.

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