'London's bridge is falling down'

[cal04]

Damning verdict on one-sided US-UK relations after Iraq
State Department official says Blair is ignored by Bush

In a devastating verdict on Tony Blair’s decision to back war in Iraq and his “totally one-sided” relationship with President Bush, a US State Department official has said that Britain’s role as a bridge between America and Europe is now “disappearing before our eyes”.

Kendall Myers, a senior State Department analyst, disclosed that for all Britain’s attempts to influence US policy in recent years, “we typically ignore them and take no notice — it’s a sad business”.

He added that he felt “a little ashamed” at Mr Bush’s treatment of the Prime Minister, who had invested so much of his political capital in standing shoulder to shoulder with America after 9/11.

Speaking at an academic forum in Washington on Tuesday night, he answered a question from The Times, saying: “It was a done deal from the beginning, it was a onesided relationship that was entered into with open eyes . . . there was nothing. There was no payback, no sense of reciprocity.”



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2478925,00.html

[whistle]

1. Now Bush/Cheney blame Tony Blair for their failures

:wtf:

[marmar]

2. What has Tony Blair gotten out of this relationship .....

.... other than getting screwed a lot? :shrug:

[Matilda]

3. "Yo Blair" said it all.

If Tony didn't know before, he must have known then that he had just been used up and spat out.

[Benhurst]

4. Poor little Tony. Everything looked so rosey when

he had his nose up Dubya's ass.