February 21, 2005
MAJOR TO THEM, MINOR TO US:
Bush dismisses rift on Iraq (Tom Raum, February 22, 2005, The Age)
US president George Bush has dismissed the rift with Europe over Iraq as a "passing disagreement of governments" and yesterday urged greater trans-Atlantic co-operation, including more support for the fledgling Iraqi Government. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 21, 2005 5:31 PM
Comments
Let's hope this is the diplomatic equivalent of politely telling a hostess her ugly dress is beautiful.
Posted by: Peter B at February 21, 2005 6:28 PMI prefer he who says: Your ugly dress is really ugly.
Posted by: Oswald Booth Czolgosz at February 21, 2005 6:39 PMThe disagreement is minor because we can disagree without serious repercussions. We're also pretending that the disagreement is minor, because there are respectable minor reasons for disagreeing with invading Iraq. It's the crazy loony major disagreements that so many of the anti-Americans mean, though.
Posted by: John Thacker at February 21, 2005 8:54 PMread your damn machiavelli...jeesh
america has its prince -- finally
Posted by: cjm at February 21, 2005 10:07 PM