Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Maybe Bush and Blair should install revolving doors to their administrations. People keep bailing out on them left and right. I guess some people do have integrity.
The latest person to leave is Clare Short, Britain's secretary for international development, She is the cabinet secretary overseeing Britain's role in reconstructing post-war Iraq. She resigned in protest today, accusing the United States and Britain of downgrading the proper role of the United Nations.
International Development Secretary Clare Short branded a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that is being proposed by the Bush administration and Prime Minister Tony Blair's government.
as "shameful". The draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq twas recently proposed.
She told the House of Commons that Blair had gone back on his commitment to support a major U.N. role in Iraq, and was going full tilt with the United States "in trying to bully the Security Council into a resolution that gives the coalition the power to establish an Iraqi government and control the use of oil" while providing "only a minor role for the U.N."
She is the second person to resign from the cabinet over Iraq. She blasted Prime Minister Tony Blair in an angry speech to the House of Commons. She was one pissed off lady.
In her letter to Mr. Blair today, she said that the current draft of the Security Council resolution on Iraq. She accused Blair and Straw of having "secretly negotiated," the deal behind her back, despite of assurances she had been given about the authority of the United Nations.
She called the UK's position "totally dishonourable".
"I cannot defend it. It is wrong in international law and for the rebuilding of Iraq and it breaches the promises that the prime minister gave to me," she told BBC News.
She accused Mr Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of acting illegally over post-conflict Iraq and suggested they had gone against the advice of Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. She went postal on the guy.
What did Bush tell Blair, that is worth such a fallout in his staff? It has to be pretty good. Maybe Bush told him that, god told George, that Blair has heavenly support, no matter how many people he looses as long as Blair continues to kiss Georgie Boy's butt. God is in the details or in Blair's case, god seems to be in Georgie's butt crack.
Sources cited:
WARREN HOGE New York Times
BBC
Krishna Guha, Financial Times
The latest person to leave is Clare Short, Britain's secretary for international development, She is the cabinet secretary overseeing Britain's role in reconstructing post-war Iraq. She resigned in protest today, accusing the United States and Britain of downgrading the proper role of the United Nations.
International Development Secretary Clare Short branded a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that is being proposed by the Bush administration and Prime Minister Tony Blair's government.
as "shameful". The draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq twas recently proposed.
She told the House of Commons that Blair had gone back on his commitment to support a major U.N. role in Iraq, and was going full tilt with the United States "in trying to bully the Security Council into a resolution that gives the coalition the power to establish an Iraqi government and control the use of oil" while providing "only a minor role for the U.N."
She is the second person to resign from the cabinet over Iraq. She blasted Prime Minister Tony Blair in an angry speech to the House of Commons. She was one pissed off lady.
In her letter to Mr. Blair today, she said that the current draft of the Security Council resolution on Iraq. She accused Blair and Straw of having "secretly negotiated," the deal behind her back, despite of assurances she had been given about the authority of the United Nations.
She called the UK's position "totally dishonourable".
"I cannot defend it. It is wrong in international law and for the rebuilding of Iraq and it breaches the promises that the prime minister gave to me," she told BBC News.
She accused Mr Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of acting illegally over post-conflict Iraq and suggested they had gone against the advice of Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. She went postal on the guy.
What did Bush tell Blair, that is worth such a fallout in his staff? It has to be pretty good. Maybe Bush told him that, god told George, that Blair has heavenly support, no matter how many people he looses as long as Blair continues to kiss Georgie Boy's butt. God is in the details or in Blair's case, god seems to be in Georgie's butt crack.
Sources cited:
WARREN HOGE New York Times
BBC
Krishna Guha, Financial Times
# posted by Thomas @ 1:03 AM 
