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Bush preparing for British U-turn on Iraq: report 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
(from Yahoo news)
US President George W. Bush has been told to prepare for a British U-turn on Iraq once Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, The Sunday Telegraph said.
Bush has been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement on British troop withdrawals during Brown's first 100 days in office, the weekly said.
The president was advised on how to handle the aftermath of a British pullout and the end of steadfast support from London, said the broadsheet, citing senior officials.
Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to step down on June 27 after a decade in power, with Brown set to take over.
Under Blair, Britain has been the United States' staunchest ally in the war in Iraq and its key partner in the decision to invade the country in March 2003.
Senior officials in the US National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department have expressed their fears about Brown, The Sunday Telegraph said.
"There is a sense of foreboding," an unnamed senior official was quoted as saying.
"We don't know if he will be there when we need him. We expect a gesture that will greatly weaken the United States government's position."
And Mark Kirk (news, bio, voting record), a congressman in Bush's Republican party who discussed Iraq policy at the White House last week, said: "The American view is that's he's a much weaker political leader than Blair. There's the fear in Washington that he won't be as strong an ally."
Blair was in Washington this week for his last talks with Bush, before jetting to Iraq for talks with political leaders in Baghdad and a visit to British troops in the main southern city of Basra.
"I have no doubt at all that Britain will remain steadfast in its support for Iraq," the prime minister said there.
"Even when I leave government I am sure that support will continue."
A source close to Brown said: "These fears are unfounded. Gordon is a committed Atlanticist who wants to strengthen and deepen our ties with America around our shared values, and who wants to persuade the rest of Europe to work in closer co-operation with America."
British troop numbers in Iraq are being scaled down from 7,100 to 5,500 this year.
Meanwhile The Sunday Times newspaper said that British officials were holding secret talks with leading insurgents in Iraq aimed at dividing them from the Al-Qaeda terror network in a bid to curb sectarian violence.
The weekly said that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was believed to be the driving force behind the talks and British ambassador Dominic Asquith was said to have been co-odinating them over recent months.
"Apart from Al-Qaeda, all the main insurgent groups took part," claimed a Kurdish source close to the discussions.
"Representatives of the groups have met with the British several times in recent months," the source told the broadsheet.
(from Yahoo news)
US President George W. Bush has been told to prepare for a British U-turn on Iraq once Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, The Sunday Telegraph said.
Bush has been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement on British troop withdrawals during Brown's first 100 days in office, the weekly said.
The president was advised on how to handle the aftermath of a British pullout and the end of steadfast support from London, said the broadsheet, citing senior officials.
Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to step down on June 27 after a decade in power, with Brown set to take over.
Under Blair, Britain has been the United States' staunchest ally in the war in Iraq and its key partner in the decision to invade the country in March 2003.
Senior officials in the US National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department have expressed their fears about Brown, The Sunday Telegraph said.
"There is a sense of foreboding," an unnamed senior official was quoted as saying.
"We don't know if he will be there when we need him. We expect a gesture that will greatly weaken the United States government's position."
And Mark Kirk (news, bio, voting record), a congressman in Bush's Republican party who discussed Iraq policy at the White House last week, said: "The American view is that's he's a much weaker political leader than Blair. There's the fear in Washington that he won't be as strong an ally."
Blair was in Washington this week for his last talks with Bush, before jetting to Iraq for talks with political leaders in Baghdad and a visit to British troops in the main southern city of Basra.
"I have no doubt at all that Britain will remain steadfast in its support for Iraq," the prime minister said there.
"Even when I leave government I am sure that support will continue."
A source close to Brown said: "These fears are unfounded. Gordon is a committed Atlanticist who wants to strengthen and deepen our ties with America around our shared values, and who wants to persuade the rest of Europe to work in closer co-operation with America."
British troop numbers in Iraq are being scaled down from 7,100 to 5,500 this year.
Meanwhile The Sunday Times newspaper said that British officials were holding secret talks with leading insurgents in Iraq aimed at dividing them from the Al-Qaeda terror network in a bid to curb sectarian violence.
The weekly said that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was believed to be the driving force behind the talks and British ambassador Dominic Asquith was said to have been co-odinating them over recent months.
"Apart from Al-Qaeda, all the main insurgent groups took part," claimed a Kurdish source close to the discussions.
"Representatives of the groups have met with the British several times in recent months," the source told the broadsheet.
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WHAT (bleeping) JOKE!! of a world we all live in...
I gotta go do something like workout....and right now...
I can only take so much stupidity in one day.
besides I'll just get some more tomorrow.
here's Gordon Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaP1HB7Vew
The next world bank Prez - Tony Blair!
shoot up those Iraqi's and suck up that oil...go on...git some boys...dat's Amerrrica
yee-fucking-haw
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Almost as funny as how if a leader/person does agree with Bush is a weak leader or a "poodle" in some people's eyes. Double think is a two way street.
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No, it's one way, in Blair's case, because he "led" his country into war, and they clearly didn't want to go. All the polls right up to March 2003 showed that the majority of British people didn't want to follow Bush into war. A rather dodgy parliamentary debate, in which MPs' votes in favour of war were assured in the usual, predictably dodgy fashion - e.g.: parliamentary Whips bribing/blackmailing politicians - saw that the people of the UK were dragged into the carnage of Shock and Awe and well beyond.
Blair was too weak (or personally avaricious?) to tell the leader of an alien country to fuck off with his nice little plan for killing British soldiers en masse, either by friendly fire or "insurgent" uprising, for a bit of cheap oil we don't even get the benefit of here, with a gallon of petrol more than treble your prices, at the least.
There's leadership, there's neglect of public service as an elected representative of a democratic country, and then there's blind pandering to a bigger, arguably unelected world superpower and dictatorship. Could you spin these three into one?
Blair would have defined his legacy as a strong leader, as Chirac for all his faults did, by saying no to the big bully dictating foreign policy.
Very well said. Very true.
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You should post in the train much more often, Fins.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I usually run a mile from the place, when I see all those religion and free will debates. Give me real issues, maaan, and I'll be here.
Nah, we wanna see you get all pissy, instead. Like the rest of us.
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