11-13-2006
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County Executive
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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Member Since: Feb 2005
Location: California
Posts: 382
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Cracks in united front between Bush and Blair
Blair wants diplomacy and talks. Bush wants ultimatums and threats. Have I mentioned that I think Bush is a horrible leader?
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Blair - we must work with 'Axis of Evil' states
By Philip Webster in London and Tom Baldwin is Washington
The first cracks in the united front over Iraq between Tony Blair and President Bush appeared last night as the Prime Minister offered Iran and Syria the prospect of dialogue over the future of Iraq and the Middle East.
Mr Blair said there could be a new “partnership” with Iran if it stopped supporting terrorism in Iraq and gave up its nuclear ambitions. Syria and Iran could choose partnership or isolation, he said.
The Prime Minister tried to exploit moves in Washington to rethink strategy on Iraq by holding out the prospect of engagement with two countries once dubbed by President Bush as part of the “axis of evil”. For the first time he also explicitly ruled out military action against Iran.
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Bush rejects calls to talk with Tehran
By Brian Knowlton / International Herald TribunePublished: November 13, 2006
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush on Monday rejected new calls for direct talks with the Iranian government on the crisis in Iraq or other matters, saying that if Tehran wanted direct negotiations it must first halt its uranium enrichment activities. If it does not, he said, it should face economic isolation.
The president's comments, made after an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, marked no new policy but amounted to a clear rejection of a nuanced call earlier in London by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, for possible U.S. talks with both Iran and Syria.
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