Posted on 05/07/2006 2:55:41 PM PDT by gwb43_2004
(CBS/AP) Two London papers have speculated this weekend that complaints by President George W. Bush forced a British minister from his post because of his opposition to the use of nuclear force against Iran.
The Independent suggests that a phone call from the U.S. president to British Prime Minister Tony Blair led to the removal of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Friday.
The newspaper reports that friends of Straw believe Mr. Bush was extremely upset when Straw pronounced any use of nuclear weapons against Iran "nuts."
Both The Independent and the Guardian write that Straw's "fate was sealed" after a White House phone call to Blair.
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Let me be the first....It's Bush's Fault!
I, for one, was not happy at all with Straw's handling of Condi's visit to Blackburn. What a disaster. Jeez, they treated her like trash there.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
That's pretty much stupid. To even suggest that we can pull the strings on the British foreign minister is an insult to our friends across the pond. But since the British were the ones who suggested it, there must be some self-loathing going on there.
We get blamed for everything. We will probably get blamed for the next solar eclipse. I give up.
Straw was pretty wobbly. I think the Brits can do better.
FMCDH(BITS)
Everything is Bush's fault.......:)
'Bout time. Straw's a slimy little b*****d. Always has been. Now if we can just get Tony B. to muzzle him.
FMCDH(BITS)
Nope.
This has Rove written all over it.
I don't get it, isn't the new Foreign minister supposed to be a lefty anti bush type? Or have I misheard?
I would hope it wouldn't need anyone from the USA to point out that to rule out all possibility of use of force against the Mad Mullahs as 'nuts' is itself friggin' NUTS. Jack Straw is just another wimply weasel. Even if you think there is no serious possibility of use of force against Iran you do not, as one of the leading Foreign Ministers of the world, tell the Mullahs that. The ONLY chance, short of force, of stopping the Mullahs is convincing them that our force will devastate them, not the opposite.
Straw is like a Brit politician telling Hitler in March 1940 that there is "no possibility" that Britain will fight to defend France, Belgium, etc., that it would be 'nuts' -- yeah, that would be just the way to convince Hitler he was on the wrong path!!! (of course, in that case the world saw how ineffectual the democracies could be anyway, when their years of military neglect and stupid defense doctrines caught up with them in May 1940)
Hell yeah! Bush is the PM of Britain. Sarcasm
"Did Bush Force British Minister Out?"
Of course not !!! Rove did it.
It's just amazing.
Why don't we simply tell our formerly good buddies in Venezuela to roast Chavez on a stick?
All it apparently takes is a phone call.
"...British airports have a set of protocols dividing important guests according to 18 levels of reception. The highest level of honour belongs to a foreign royal family, followed by a country's incumbent president. The bottom one is the ambassador to Britain from a foreign country." - taken from a 1970s book on aviation, published in Britain.
In other words, Bush is so powerful enough that he is the most powerful person in Britain and yet can't get himself a higher level of reception than this gentleman when at British airports?
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg, the heir apparent to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
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