Committee Report States the Obvious
By The UK government needs to be “less deferential” towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said. The Commons Foreign Affairs committee also said it was wrong to speak of “the special relationship” with the US, as it was fostering other alliances.
However, the MPs did agree that the link between the countries was “profound and valuable”…
The committee said that the relationship was more associated now with the perceived support Britain gave to President George W Bush over the Iraq war. “The perception that the British government was a subservient ‘poodle’ to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas,” it said.
“This perception, whatever its relation to reality, is deeply damaging to the reputation and interests of the UK.”
Don’t be surprised if you hear wingnuts babbling that Obama is destroying our most treasured alliances; the strategic goal is to make sure that Obama is blamed for every palpable failure of the Bush administration. As we all know, Obama played a key role in shuffling Iraq’s WMD off to Syria before the war…