http://www.sundayherald.com/38183Muriel Gray says that last week was the lowpoint of the US relationship
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Have you ever seen Blair look more of a blithering idiot than during last week? If only, during the pantomime of George Bush’s PR tour, sorry, state visit, we could have laughed merrily at Blair’s ham acting, phoney look-at-me-on-the-brink-of-tears-again-folks sincerity, and total inability to notice what a stooge he is. But as they scrape more bits of people off Turkish streets laughter is fast becoming a rare sound.
Goodness, how the rest of Europe must weep with regret that they don’t have that “special” relationship with the USA, when they see all the favours that Tony is winning Britain in return for his unswerving loyalty to this most corrupt of American administrations. Let’s see now. Well, he’s getting the British prisoners back from Guantanamo Bay to be tried here. Ah, well, no he isn’t actually. It would seem the prisoners are staying put until they can presumably be executed without proper trial if and when it suits an ongoing presidential campaign. Well then at least Britain will be invited to sneak through the US’s watertight, anti-European trade barrier to sell them our steel, cocking a snook at those pesky anti-war countries like France while counting the dollars we get for girders. Er, actually no again. The trade wall stays.
So what exactly did this snake in a suit bring as a gift in return for putting Britain in the terrorist firing line, sacrificing British servicemen and women’s lives, souring our relationship with Europe, being put up at the palace and charging us a £6 million police bill to prevent his sorry backside being blown off? Nothing. Zilch. Not even a bottle of Blue Nun and some flowers bought from a garage forecourt. In his B-movie statesman/tough-guy speech, Bush called Britain America’s “best friend in the world”. Yes I’m sure we are, in the same way the ugly girl who’s always persuaded to accompany her slim, pretty pal to discos inevitably walks home alone in the rain as her ‘friend’ goes off with a boy in a taxi.
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But none of this applies anyway since George most certainly does not mean what he says, and he has no intention of righting any wrongs. He is not fighting for freedom, democracy or tolerance. He’s trying to find ways of using the excuse of terror to clean up the untidy bits of an international jigsaw that America needs in place to further its own interests.
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