We Are Now A Client State (Brits Lose Sovereignty To US)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 7-17-2003 | David Leigh/Richard Norton-Taylor

[Brett66]

Beats being a client state to France.

[Shermy]

There's always Paris.

[Support Free Republic]

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[MEG33]

Oh,Please.

[Cicero]

The Guardian and the Independent ought to pick up stakes and move to Cuba. They'd feel much more at home there.

[Arkinsaw]

The Guardian is bleating about sovereignty? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[EternalVigilance]

Some, such as RAF Fairford, are well known - surrounded by armed guards as the huge B52s roared off nightly to bomb Baghdad.

Perhaps they should be surrounded by personnel from the Ministry of Silly Walks?

[Salman]

No surprise, therefore, that the planned award to him of a congressional medal of honour for backing the US invasion of Iraq...

This doesn't ring true. Some other award maybe?

[EternalVigilance]

Actually, the modern situation is the unavoidable outworking of what developed 60 years ago.

England would have been ground into the dust, and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic, by Hitler if it had not been for us. No disrespect intended to their brave men and women who valiatly fought and won the Battle of Britian, but it is simply the truth.

They had no choice but to sacrifice their sovereignty to obtain the only thing that could save them--American men and materiel.

Oh well.

[GladesGuru]

What rot!

When Churchill offered an English award to Ike, even though Congress had to OK the acceptance, he accepted it graciously. In no way was either nation demeaned, as this article implies is now happening with a similar situation.

Neither Blair or England is being demeaned or belittled now. Indeed, the only "little" thing in the article seems to be the authors. Little, petty, minds mewling and puking a little, petty, thesis.

One must hope that such an article is the result of a very slow day at the newspaper.

[prairiebreeze]

Oh pish! This article is full of holes.

Since it is no longer clear why we need a nuclear deterrent, that probably does not matter. ~~ Do they not get news of North Korea at the Guardian??

As Rumsfeld brutally pointed out, however, the US could easily have fought the Iraq war without Britain. ~~Lies. Rumsfeld said that if the Brits decided their role wasn't with the Americans in Iraq, then America would handle it. Only liberal shriekers inferred anything else.

I could go on but I'm too tired and going to bed. Just more Guardian drivel...

Prairie

[dighton]

Some other award maybe?

PM Blair will recieve the Congressional Gold Medal, not the Medal of Honor.

[Pee_Oui]

I agree, please, this is so much crap!!

DL

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They already lost their sovereignty to the EU.

[MEG33]

It's the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.I looked it up because I knew it wasn't the Congressional Medal of Honor.

[dighton]

It's the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Ah, two medals for PM Blair.

Tony Blair to receive Ellis Island Medal of Honor for International Leadership

US awards Blair gold medal for Iraq support

In any case, not the Medal of Honor.

[SandRat]

Lost? No surrendered it to the EU but found some courage in GW's lead.

The UK has not surrendered self-governance to the US until every UK citizen has to file an IRS 1040 every April 15th.

The referenced papers are laughed at almost universally in the English-speaking world. Remember the Guardian hired Propaganda Peter Arnet.

[MEG33]

How on earth could they have made this big a mistake.Jason Blair clones.

[blam]

"Remember the Guardian hired Propaganda Peter Arnet."

You sure? I thought it was the Globe?