Good news, the main advocate of mullahs' appeasement policy and ayatollah lover who had blocked the regime change in Iran for almost a decade is gone. Posted on 05/05/2006 5:57:13 AM PDT by remuk
Good news, the main advocate of mullahs' appeasement policy and ayatollah lover who had blocked the regime change in Iran for almost a decade is gone.
AP says, "Prime Minister Tony Blair fired his law and order chief Friday and chose a new foreign secretary in a wide-ranging Cabinet shuffle a day after his party took a pounding in local elections".
I believe a big obstacle towards getting rid of the mullahs for ever is gone, Europe hopefully strengthen its position against Iran and gets tougher on Ahmadinejad. The man is on a head on collision course expecting the world to chicken out and accept him as a nuclear power in the region.
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He's the one who kept saying that military force will never be used against Iran. Condi gave up her bed for Straw and slept on the floor.
Jack Straw gone!
Good riddance.
Does anyone think we're closer to a confrontation (war) with Iran because of this move? Blair may be adjusting to the realities, huh?
I think he wants Iran to hear a different message. Straw was ruling everything out.
The BBC must be in total mourning today.
I thought this was Condi's buddy.
A true man of straw...Good riddance!
Straw is the man who had Pinochet stripped of his diplomatic immunity too, leading to his arrest.
Hell yes...Straw was a blockage in the intestinal tract of foreign policy.
Straw is nothing if not a loyalist. I doubt that he said anything that did not mirror Tony Blair's thinking. Certainly, on Iran, Straw's public statements have been very much in line with Balir's.
Excellent News! People don't realize how important this is.
Yippie!
Now, who will replace him?
Good riddance, appeaser!!!
He's the one who kept saying that military force will never be used against Iran. Condi gave up her bed for Straw and slept on the floor.---blam
The alternative explanation was more recently given by Irwin Stelzer in The Spectator; he has remarkably good Washington contacts and is probably right. His account is that Mr Straw was indeed dismissed because of American anxieties, but that Dr Rice herself had become worried, on her visit to Blackburn, by Mr Straw’s dependence on Muslim votes. About 20 per cent of the voters in Blackburn are Islamic; Mr Straw was dismissed only four weeks after Dr Rice’s visit to his constituency. It may be that both explanations are correct. The first complaint may have been made by Mr Rumsfeld because of Iran; Dr Rice may have withdrawn her support after seeing the Islamic pressures in Blackburn. At any rate, Irwin Stelzer’s account confirms that Mr Straw was fired because of American pressure.
-----"How the US fired Jack Straw," by William Rees-Mogg , The Times (U.K.), 08/07/06
Just bringing this up again since I expect the next Dem target, now that Gonzales is gone, is going to be Rice.
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