in the face of a fierce enemy.
PM Brown is such a tough guy.
Excuse me, but I am not fearful of the English leaving
Iraq. The Times can shove this where Brown...
Sorry, the English want to be liberal wooses.
Well, when you come right down to it, Britain’s help in Iraq was really more valuable for political and morale purposes than for any practical reasons.
Tony Blair may basically be a socialist, but he was brave and ruined his political career by being an ally to us as he did. I appreciate it. But anyone that thinks that Gordon Brown is going to pay any more than ‘lip service’ to alliance to the USA is smoking or ingesting something very potent.
The only thing that surprises me is that his first official act wasn’t to pull all of Britain’s troops home and surrender to to ‘Mohamed’.
Interesting comment.
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Let us not forget - sometimes the media is nothing more than a “useful idiot” for political posturing.
Brown is between a rock and a hard place on this. The truth is, Tony Blair didn’t want to fight in Iraq, but he finally agreed because he was a patriot and he realized that England could not, as Kissinger points out, afford to kick away the “Special Relationship.”
On the other hand, Blair did wreck his career, and Brown won’t want to follow him in that. He is a very ambitious politician.
The obvious thing to do is to hem and haw and delay any definite commitment until November 2008, when he knows who the next president will be. If the Dems win, problem solved. They will cave together. If Fred Thompson wins, then it’s back to the drawing board.
So the obvious answer is obfuscation and delay, but no pull out until the situation is defined next year.
This whole thread is hilarious. The US Democrat government is concerned that the UK might at some point want to pull out of Iraq, whilst your Dem government is falling over itself to surrender at the earliest possible date!
And they say Americans can’t understand Irony! :))))
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! :D
What does England 'feel' about this effete 'Britain'? Also, isn't the main source of oil for the entire planet of interest to someone?