Gordon Brown Gives Thumbs Up to Bush's Leadership...

So, he's not pulling any British troops out..and with only a couple thou left, I guess he will be sending reinforcements to Iraq?

Great!
 
Beefy said:
I would say "Faced" is a better description than "corrected".
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LOL

Its comforting to know that when someone fesses up to a mistake, they can expect to get piled on. Maybe I should just be like Dixie and SF and never admit a mistake? ;)

I quite sure Brown was being polite and tactful. He's looking forward to working with a Clinton or Obama adminstration, and consequently he's building ties to the US. No sense for him to burn bridges with 16 months left in the Bush regime.
 
Cypress said:
LOL

Its comforting to know that when someone fesses up to a mistake, they can expect to get piled on. Maybe I should just be like Dixie and SF and never admit a mistake? ;)

I quite sure Brown was being polite and tactful. He's looking forward to working with a Clinton or Obama adminstration, and consequently he's building ties to the US. No sense for him to burn bridges with 16 months left in the Bush regime.
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Nooo. Get out of town! I heard he's sending 5 brigades to Iraq, to repay Bush for this great favor! Yeah, it was on FOX.
 
Cypress said:
LOL

Its comforting to know that when someone fesses up to a mistake, they can expect to get piled on. Maybe I should just be like Dixie and SF and never admit a mistake? ;)

I quite sure Brown was being polite and tactful. He's looking forward to working with a Clinton or Obama adminstration, and consequently he's building ties to the US. No sense for him to burn bridges with 16 months left in the Bush regime.
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That makes a great deal of sense.---Hopefully, you are correct.
 
Cypress said:
LOL

Its comforting to know that when someone fesses up to a mistake, they can expect to get piled on. Maybe I should just be like Dixie and SF and never admit a mistake? ;)

I quite sure Brown was being polite and tactful. He's looking forward to working with a Clinton or Obama adminstration, and consequently he's building ties to the US. No sense for him to burn bridges with 16 months left in the Bush regime.
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Ah, you know I'm just dickin around. I agree with your assertion that he's practicing political expedience with the niceties, and this really isn't an indication of Jack shit.

But fuck him anyway. He should have poked W in the eye, Moe Howard style.
 
Beefy said:
Ah, you know I'm just dickin around. I agree with your assertion that he's practicing political expedience with the niceties, and this really isn't an indication of Jack shit.

But fuck him anyway. He should have poked W in the eye, Moe Howard style.
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Hah, ditto.
 
Beefy said:
Ah, you know I'm just dickin around. I agree with your assertion that he's practicing political expedience with the niceties, and this really isn't an indication of Jack shit.

But fuck him anyway. He should have poked W in the eye, Moe Howard style.
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that I would have paid to see :)
 
I'd guarantee that if Gordon had given George a slap he could have called a snap election and doubled his majority on the strength of it.
 
charver said:
I'd guarantee that if Gordon had given George a slap he could have called a snap election and doubled his majority on the strength of it.
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Did you see "Love, Actually", by any chance?

I wish you guys would get a PM like Hugh Grant was in that. That was very cool. He didn't take any shit from the Bush-like US President.
 
Darla said:
Did you see "Love, Actually", by any chance?

I wish you guys would get a PM like Hugh Grant was in that. That was very cool. He didn't take any shit from the Bush-like US President.
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I haven't actually seen it, but there have been lots of comparisons drawn to it in the press, what with Gordon having his first audience with the Great Satan.

I'm afraid we're your poodle; following the master blindly in the hope of a tickle behind the ear and a few scraps from the contract table. However, we are very well house-trained and don't require walking at all. Perhaps, if we're very good you may give us that bitch France to fuck, no?
 
charver said:
I haven't actually seen it, but there have been lots of comparisons drawn to it in the press, what with Gordon having his first audience with the Great Satan.

I'm afraid we're your poodle; following the master blindly in the hope of a tickle behind the ear and a few scraps from the contract table. However, we are very well house-trained and don't require walking at all. Perhaps, if we're very good you may give us that bitch France to fuck, no?
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LOL. Um, ok, sure.

Some day, things will be different.
 
It is awfully nice that GB keeps electing PMs who love Bush so much. I mean, yeah.... I wonder if Bush gave him a massage too.
 
Uhhh .. not so fast.

Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2819582.ece

Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.

After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US President at his Camp David retreat, Mr Brown told a joint press conference he would make a Commons statement in October on the future of the 5,500 British troops in the Basra region.

The Bush administration, under mounting domestic pressure to produce an exit strategy from Iraq, has been nervous that a full British withdrawal would add to the criticism. But Mr Brown made clear - and President Bush accepted - that Britain would go its own way, even if that gave the impression the two countries were diverging.

President Bush heaped praise on Mr Brown after their first meeting since he became Prime Minister, playing down suggestions that Mr Blair's departure would weaken the strong US-UK partnership. Revealingly, Mr Brown did not return the personal compliments, instead focusing on the historic links between the two countries and predicting they would get even stronger. This reflected his desire for a more business-like relationship with the President, instead of the strong personal bond forged by Mr Blair.
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Brown may have simply been cordial, but having no intention of being Bush's new puppy.
 
That's the spin, yes.

In actuality our programme of withdrawal started under Dear Tony and this is merely a continuation. There haven't been any senior figures in the Labour Party, the Armed forces or the newspapers who haven't been of the opinion that the remaining troops would be withdrawn during 2008. The simple fact is that we are massively overstretched and we need the troops for Afghanistan.

I accept the relationship isn't as cordial as with Bush as Tony's, but that would be almost impossible, whoever was the PM.
 
dont be too hard on the new brit, he's a good dog, what a good boy, come here, fetch, roll over, good dog, get off the couch, thats a gooood boooy!
 
Crashk said:
dont be too hard on the new brit, he's a good dog, what a good boy, come here, fetch, roll over, good dog, get off the couch, thats a gooood boooy!
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That does, depressingly, sum the situation up perfectly.

Ironically, i am of the opinion that Gordon Brown could, easily, have George Bush in a fight. Thems Glasgow boys know how to handle themselves.
 
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