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2004-04-27 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-27 12:41:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "We believe that the need for such influence is now a matter of the highest urgency as we haven't gotten any oil vouchers for several months now!!

Posted by B 2004-04-27 1:13:55 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:13:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The letter, signed by 52 former diplomats, including ambassadors, high commissioners and governors,(along with the usual assortment of bureaucratic ne'r-do-wells), also attacks President Bush for (not being anti-Semitic), endorsing Israel's plan to retain some settlements in the West Bank and criticizes Blair's gutsy public support for the policy. "These things needed saying and have needed saying for some time," Oliver The Weasel Miles, a former ambassador to Greece, told The AP on Monday.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 1:26:53 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:26:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice rant, 4052, we should work those into the story!

By the way: with all the anon posters getting numbers, does it remind anyone of the scene in "Zulu" where the Welsh soldiers explain why they refer to each other by number?

Posted by Steve White 2004-04-27 1:29:05 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:29:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 it reminds me of Max Smart.

Posted by B 2004-04-27 1:30:33 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:30:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "We ... have watched with deepening concern (Damnit Blair, you are pissing of the leftist base of your party by using common sense and having a broader view of things) the policies which you have followed on the Arab-Israel problem and Iraq, in close co-operation with the United States (Why are you ignoring France, Germany, Russia, and Now Spain?)," reads the letter. "We feel the time has come to make our anxieties anal retentiveness public, in the hope that they will be addressed in Parliament and will lead to a fundamental appeasement ~~reassessment~~."

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 1:45:02 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:45:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Pfft! the traditional arabists at foreign office
they have the dream of Lawrence of Arabia! Sleeping with dictators...

Posted by Anonymous4602 2004-04-27 1:45:18 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:45:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 A4602 - I did note anal retentiveness, disguised as anxiety!

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 1:48:58 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:48:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 It's too simplistic to interpret this sort of mass whining from the diplomatic establishment as a conclusive endorsement of the soundness of the Blair approach, but it's certainly a very, very good sign. I'd have given anything to eavesdrop on office chatter in State/NEA or the corresponding part of the Foreign Office in the last two weeks.

Posted by IceCold 2004-04-27 1:57:21 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:57:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Brits are ARABISTS plain and simple. Sixty years ago Brits and their Arab butt-buddies were in present day Israel shooting Jewish children fleeing the holocaust for the Holy Land, and toasting Allah as they watched the bloody, bleeding bodies bob in the Med....

Posted by Garrison 2004-04-27 2:02:50 AM|| 2004-04-27 2:02:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 True to an extent. We were arabist when they were useful to us. Part of our great Machiavellian tradition in world events. We're not quite as bad as the French though.
Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a magical insight into arab society. I would urge all who haven't to read it.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-04-27 4:26:29 AM|| 2004-04-27 4:26:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Garrison..do you use drugs?

Posted by B 2004-04-27 7:54:23 AM|| 2004-04-27 7:54:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Garrison:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/King_David.html

Hairy muff. But does the picture remind you of anything?

Posted by Howard UK 2004-04-27 7:58:51 AM|| 2004-04-27 7:58:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 What the hell! Saudi Arabia threatening to cut their pensions?

Posted by Barry 2004-04-27 9:59:57 AM|| 2004-04-27 9:59:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 I though England and the US had no interest in stability in the Middle East.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2004-04-27 5:30:33 PM|| 2004-04-27 5:30:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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