LAT: Blair Gains Little in U.S. Visit

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Blair Gains Little in U.S. Visit
Bush stands firm against the British prime minister's plans to double aid to Africa and to tightly restrict greenhouse gases.

By Edwin Chen, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Tuesday to continue working together to combat food shortages and disease in Africa, even as they failed to agree on how to carry out what Blair called "a real and common desire to help that troubled continent."

Although the two leaders said the United States and Britain were nearing an agreement on granting full debt relief to some of the continent's most indebted nations, Bush did not budge from his opposition to Blair's proposal that the United States and other major industrialized nations double their foreign aid to Africa to about $80 billion by 2010.

Aware of Bush's position, the British prime minister told the Financial Times a day earlier that he would not bring up the matter during their meeting.

On another Blair initiative — to impose tough restrictions on emissions of greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere — Bush also parted company with his guest, saying that the United States needed to know more about global warming before it could more effectively deal with the phenomenon....

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"On one hand, (Bush is) trying to put a good face on the fact that the prime minister of Great Britain had stood by the president of the United States since at least Sept. 11, 2001, shoulder-to-shoulder, and came here to ask him to do more on some issues that he cares a great deal about, and Bush basically said sorry, he's not going to do it," (Ivo H. Daalder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a public policy center in Washington) said....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-blair8jun08,0,1336365.story?coll=la-home-world

[getmeouttahere]

1. What's amazing is that the neocons....

still don't understand why we are such a pariah around the world. The rest of the industrialized world will leave us in the proverbial dust over the next 4 years!

[acmavm]

2. Seriously, what did Poodle Man think he was going to get? Apparently

he hasn't been paying attention to exactly what kind of people he's been dealing with.

I hope this bites him in the ass big time. I hope the British people finally get pissed about the price they've paid because Blair is nothing more than a pathetic whore for a gang of bloody fingered lying killers.

[sweetheart]

5. Poodle man naively believes bush means well

The English monarchists were behind the south at the outset of the
american civil war, and all the media of the time were behind the
charade... and times don't change much... so the new monarchist bLIAR
is behind the planation state and hoping to spread it around the planet
for the benefit of repression everywhere.

The sooner blair goes the better... stupid git.

[Supersedeas]

6. one poodle on a one way street: Boulevard of Oily Dreams

[gratuitous]

3. "The prime minister . . . stood by the president"

And apparently that wasn't reward enough for Tony, who now wants to squander billions of dollars of Amurikin taxpayer money to, I dunno, feed starving children in Africa or something. Doesn't he know there's a war on?

See Tony, loyalty's a one-way street with the corrupt Bush administration, and whatever quo you thought you were buying with your quid, the Bushistas don't give -- they just take and demand more. Now go back to London and thanks for playing.

[Arugula Latte]

4. You lie down with lying, corrupt, thieving, murderous dogs, Tony

you wake up with an awfully bad flea infestation.

[readmylips]

7. Hey, this applies to Bill & Hillary....

All that good stuff they're doing with the repigs will be used against them. CNN already had a negative piece on Hillary being kissy-kissy with that snake charmer Gringrich, then she staved the bush in the back, labeled her two face. What are those Clinton thinking???!!!

[Arugula Latte]

8. Yeah, good point.

I just don't get it. Haven't they learned their lesson by now?

And why is Bill cozying up to Poppy Bush? It's very unsettling.