Dupe - please delete.

[annxburns]

A leading Republican says President George W. Bush is "mesmerised" by Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, and that the Bush administration's recent co-operation with the United Nations and Nato in Afghanistan and Iraq is a desperate move to "rescue a failing venture".

Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser and close collaborator of former president George H. W. Bush, told the Financial Times that the US administration's "unilateralist" stance had contributed to the decline of the transatlantic relationship.

"It's in general bad," he said. "It's not really hostile but there's an edge to it."

Mr Scowcroft, who served as mentor to Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, has courted unpopularity with the administration before. In 2002 he warned Mr Bush against rushing into a war in Iraq.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7f1575fa-1d62-11d9-abbf-00000e2511c8.html



Rats leaving a sinking ship ya'all.

[soleft]

1. So did we all go to AAR for Franken and see this at the same time?

Great Minds Post alike. Actually I didn't post it because I saw Burtworm - but I was about to.

[annxburns]

3. Sorry - I'll delete. Saw this on Atrios.

[underpants]

2. Ah yes Sharon's sexual powers and charisma

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