Yellowdogtexan
11-13-2007, 12:59 AM
This is amusing. Tony blair was bush's lapdog for so long that the bushies do not know what to do with a real UK leader. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/11/wiran111.xmlThe Bush administration is losing patience with Gordon Brown over Iran, with senior American diplomats frustrated by his reluctance to declare bluntly that the Islamic state must never be allowed nuclear weapons.
Allies of Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, have told The Sunday Telegraph that the Prime Minister should emulate France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and warn that Iran may face military action, in order to help avert a new war in the Middle East.
The concerns reflect growing irritation in Washington, from the White House down, that Mr Brown will not match his more robust private conversations on Iran with hard-hitting public statements that would put pressure on the Teheran regime.
Ms Rice's inner circle argue that unless Iran believes that its defiance of the international community will lead to serious economic and military consequences, there is little hope of diplomacy succeeding. They regard Britain as a key to that effort.
A senior State Department official with close ties to Ms Rice said: "It would be helpful if he took a tougher line in public. We've got to convince Iran that the West will not tolerate them developing nuclear weapons.
"At the moment, I don't think Iran takes the threat seriously. We need Iran, and the rest of the world, to realise that this is not just a bunch of crazy Americans on the one side and flaky Europeans on the other - that we are united on this one."
The concerns from such a senior official are significant because Mr Brown has previously been on good terms with the State Department. However, the Government under Mr Brown has already incurred the wrath of some US commanders in Iraq for the withdrawal of British troops from Basra.
blair participated in the fixing of the facts and intelligence that lead to the Iraq war. Now the bushies do not know what to do when the UK leader does not follow their instructions and use the lies that the bushies are spreading about Iran.
Allies of Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, have told The Sunday Telegraph that the Prime Minister should emulate France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and warn that Iran may face military action, in order to help avert a new war in the Middle East.
The concerns reflect growing irritation in Washington, from the White House down, that Mr Brown will not match his more robust private conversations on Iran with hard-hitting public statements that would put pressure on the Teheran regime.
Ms Rice's inner circle argue that unless Iran believes that its defiance of the international community will lead to serious economic and military consequences, there is little hope of diplomacy succeeding. They regard Britain as a key to that effort.
A senior State Department official with close ties to Ms Rice said: "It would be helpful if he took a tougher line in public. We've got to convince Iran that the West will not tolerate them developing nuclear weapons.
"At the moment, I don't think Iran takes the threat seriously. We need Iran, and the rest of the world, to realise that this is not just a bunch of crazy Americans on the one side and flaky Europeans on the other - that we are united on this one."
The concerns from such a senior official are significant because Mr Brown has previously been on good terms with the State Department. However, the Government under Mr Brown has already incurred the wrath of some US commanders in Iraq for the withdrawal of British troops from Basra.
blair participated in the fixing of the facts and intelligence that lead to the Iraq war. Now the bushies do not know what to do when the UK leader does not follow their instructions and use the lies that the bushies are spreading about Iran.