Did Bush Force British Minister Out?

CBS NEWS ^ | May 7, 2006

[gwb43_2004]

[nuconvert]

Let me be the first....It's Bush's Fault!

[section9]

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

[Dog Gone]

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.

[MARKUSPRIME]

We get blamed for everything. We will probably get blamed for the next solar eclipse. I give up.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Straw was pretty wobbly. I think the Brits can do better.

[nothingnew]

Yeah, he did. He controls the weather too. He has a front row seat on the mother ship.

FMCDH(BITS)

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Everything is Bush's fault.......:)

[LibWhacker]

'Bout time. Straw's a slimy little b*****d. Always has been. Now if we can just get Tony B. to muzzle him.

[nothingnew]

pingaroo

FMCDH(BITS)

[formercalifornian]

Bush was right!

[LasVegasMac]

Let me be the first....It's Bush's Fault!

Nope.

This has Rove written all over it.

[Mount Athos]

I don't get it, isn't the new Foreign minister supposed to be a lefty anti bush type? Or have I misheard?

[Enchante]

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)

[gedeon3]

Hell yeah! Bush is the PM of Britain. Sarcasm

[MOgirl]

Hello,

True story, a lib I know called me three weeks ago to explain to me why her Australian friends were unhappy. You see (in her demented world) Australia is a colony of the UK. The Prime Minister of the UK is Bush's poodle. Bush forced his "poodle" to fight the WOT and their "colonies" were forced to go along. Needless to say, I lost it and it was NOT pretty. Two weeks later she called to beg for forgiveness, and pass along the good wishes of her friends down under. You just can't make this stuff up. Glad to be here, MOgirl

[Chi-townChief]

"Did Bush Force British Minister Out?"

Of course not !!! Rove did it.

[Dog Gone]

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.

[NZerFromHK]

I'm not sure whether I want to laugh or cry over the article. If we extend your perspective your article that Bush is so powerful he overrules every British voter and minister over policy, then it means he is omnipotent in Britain. And yet for a supposedly omnipotent person, he can't even get the highest level of reception at British airports?

"...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