bushmilhousegang sending bombs thru Scotland to Israel

[donsu]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5218036.stm



Beckett protest at weapons flight


British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has protested to the US about its use of Prestwick Airport in western Scotland to transport bombs to Israel.

Amid the Lebanon crisis, she said it seemed the US was ignoring procedure, and she registered her concerns with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

SNP leader Alex Salmond claimed the UK government must decide whether to "be an aircraft carrier" for the US.
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the bushmilhousegang does what it wants

whose to stop them?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. If this isn't proof that the US has no interest in stopping the fighting,

then what is?

[Ezlivin]

2. It is proof that THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE

Just as President Eisenhower warned us, we are now in the grip of the Military-Industrial complex.

As long as war is profitable to them we will never have peace.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. So true. Had a debate with hubby last night that we could have

universal education and healthcare in thris country if we just slasehed to military budget. He thought I was crazy, wanting to leave us defenseless. :eyes:

[LSK]

4. defenseless against who???

Our nukes are not going anywhere.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I said the same thing. He said, "Yeah but everyone knows we won't really

use them."

[Algorem]

6. U.S-U.K.-Israel axis of evil.

[KamaAina]

7. Where's Robert the Bruce when you need him?

We Scots (and Scottish-Americans) say nae to the PNAC war!

[struggle4progress]

8. Bomb flights will go on as UK is accused of gesture politics

JAMES KIRKUP
POLITICAL EDITOR

THE British government was yesterday accused of gesture politics after complaining about American use of a Scottish airport to transport arms to Israel yet refusing to block more such flights or call for a Middle East ceasefire.

Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, has threatened a formal protest to Washington over United States government transport planes carrying "bunker-buster" munitions that refuelled at Prestwick over the weekend en route to Israel.

Despite the minister's words, Whitehall officials yesterday privately confirmed that the government will not stop future US arms deliveries calling at British airports ...

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1094782006

[Canuckistanian]

9. More "Air-Guitar Diplomacy"

"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"