Blair to Bush: Back off and STFU
Foreign policy an' diplomacy are for Defeatocraps! Unbelievable -- from dKos:
From today's Guardian, we learn that the Bush administration wanted to escalate tensions with Iran after the 15 British sailors were seized two weeks ago. How predictable; for Bush and Cheney, any resort to diplomacy is a token of weakness. Bush offered to use American naval forces provocatively in order to threaten Iran.Mini-quotes mine.
Instead, Blair told them to stay out of it. He also asked Bush & Co. to tone down the rhetoric while Britain tried to free the hostages without provoking a war.
A senior Iranian source with close ties to the Revolutionary Guard told the Guardian: "If this had been between Iranian and American soldiers it could have been the beginning of an 'accidental' war."
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I WONDERED why this wasn't another 'Gulf of Tonkin' type of event. But Blair's Labor party must (unlike the Re-boobs) want to WIN another election, so they're reining in any stupid militaristic ventures (kind of like the Reboobs did with Bush BEFORE 9/11 when the US plane strayed into Chinese air space).
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