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| Cook warns Blair to distance himself from Bush |
| 2003-04-16 |
| IRNA -- Former British cabinet minister Robin Cook Wednesday warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that he must distance himself from US President George W. Bush if the UK is to be a major European power. "If the prime minister wants to restore Britain's status as a major European player he must now accept that moving closer to Europe requires, by definition, putting more distance between Britain and Bush," Cook said. Good advice, and worth every penny... Blair's relationship with the US president had made Britain the "odd one out," with France and Germany now the dominant forces in the European Union, he said in an article for the New Statesman magazine. "Labour's objective on taking office in 1997 was to make Britain a partner of equal importance in a triangle He says that like it's a bad thing... Cook warned that the prime minister was wrong to have tried to establish the same warm friendship with Bush as he enjoyed with former US President Bill Clinton and said he must decide whether it is more important for the UK to be close to the US or Europe. I'd call that an easy choice, but hey, it's your country... "The fundamental foreign policy dilemma for Britain is not Iraq, it is not even Europe, it is what kind of relationship we can maintain with the US while it is under neo-conservative management," he said. Yes! Damn those |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 EU=USSR lite. May it take 10 years max to be consigned into the dustbin of history. We'll see if Milton Friedman was right about the euro. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-17 00:56:10 |
| #5 The best thing Blair could do is to begin emulating some of the policies of the United States, and cutting itself free of European chains. He better do it soon. I don't remember where the article is, but there is a movement underway by government officials in a few EU member states to make withdrawing from the EU practically impossible. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-16 18:55:04 |
| #4 Oh ... Robin Cook. I thought it was Alistair Cooke. If the latter, I would give it some credence. But because it is the former Cook, it's a bunch of codswollop! |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-04-16 16:54:00 |
| #3 Clog your mouth, Cook! Blair is not about to consign Britain to mediocrity and weaselhood, so don't try to convince him! |
| Posted by: KP 2003-04-16 16:44:20 |
| #2 cook is a communist, and what he's doing is a predictable in light of pending elections. Britain has socialists embedded so deep they will have a hard time recovering, the pressure to move britain into step with EU states is all part of the plan to instill into the EU a socialist super state, where they can rearm against the threat of a US superpower. Socialism once installed will give the EU a sufficient tax base so as to up collections from average citizens while protecting the oligarchic interests of the large corporations who will have reached an accomodation. The subversion of EU citizens is ongoing but by no means complete. Many know the extent of the subversion and many more are about to learn the truth. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-16 16:22:36 |
| #1 I can now see why Cook's departure was considered a major political gain for Tony Blair. This guy's a certified Parisian nutcase. The "European Union" is a financial, political, and cultural basketcase, on the slippery slide into oblivion. The best thing Blair could do is to begin emulating some of the policies of the United States, and cutting itself free of European chains. I wonder what Cook's personal goals are, if he'd rather see Great Britain lose considerable portions of its sovereignty to Continental (I.E., France and Germany) Europe, rather than to be considered an equal partner with the most powerful nation on Earth. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-16 15:22:04 |