Prince Andrew, sacked as UK business envoy, victim of WikiLeaks?

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Prince Andrew, sacked as UK business envoy, victim of WikiLeaks?


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The royal demotion follows the recent debut of the reality show featuring his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson on the Oprah television network. It also comes after the British government was embarrassed by unflattering descriptions of Prince Andrew's "astonishingly candid" comments bashing the French and anti-corruption investigators while on a 2008 visit to Central Asia, as described in U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks last year.

"Astonishingly candid, the discussion at times verged on the rude ," wrote U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Tatiana Gfoeller in the October 2008 cable, describing the two-hour lunch meeting she attended featuring the Duke of York.

Regaled with complaints at the meeting from British businesspeople about Kyrgyz corruption, "the Duke of York laughed uproariously, saying that: 'All of this sounds exactly like France,'" the U.S. Ambassador wrote.

Then turning to the subject of "the Great Game"—the world powers' historical quest for influence in Central Asia—Prince Andrew "stated baldly that 'the United Kingdom, Western Europe (and by extension you Americans too') were now back in the thick of playing the Great Game," Amb. Gfoeller wrote. "More animated than ever, he stated cockily: 'And this time we aim to win!'"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/prince-andrew-sacked-uk-business-envoy-victim-wikileaks-204613609.html



-------------- Well, at least we now know what it's called -- "The Great Game" -- !!!

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1. No one interested in "The Great Game" ... ???

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2. Prince Andrew: "UK, Western Europe, Americans, too, now back playing Great Game:"--!!

Then turning to the subject of "the Great Game"—the world powers' historical quest for influence in Central Asia—Prince Andrew "stated baldly that 'the United Kingdom, Western Europe (and by extension you Americans too') were now back in the thick of playing the Great Game," Amb. Gfoeller wrote. "More animated than ever, he stated cockily: 'And this time we aim to win!'"

[Dawson Leery]

3. Delusional with undeserved privilege.

Asia is going to be the largest economic player later this century. At most, the west can sell it's products to them (if they learn from Germany) and will invest in those countries of course. The west will NOT control Asia this time around.

[HipChick]

4. also being photographed with teen prostitutes didn't help

[Kaleva]

5. He's been on thin ice for awhile.

The job he just got sacked from was a chance to redeem himself and his reputation but he blew it.

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7. Don't know how anyone can still defend this system of "Royalty" ....

and from his comments you might say he was "disillusioned" with the job and the

realtity of "The Great Game" -- but maybe he was bragging about it?

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6. Did you read his comments about The Great Game" .... ????

Granted they're all whores -- but occasionally you get a bit of truth

from them!