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I take this development as further proof
that Bush and the neocons are destroying America's relations with the entire
world, including all of Europe (not just "Old Europe").
From the standpoint of American interests,
history will judge the Bush administration to be the most disastrous in
history. Bush is a force for pure destruction. It will be impossible
for anyone to fix what he has broken.
Israel, and its satellite, the U.S., are
on a violent collision course with the entire planet. Sharon, and his
puppet, Bush, are terrorism-creating machines without peer. Increasingly
the rest of the world wants nothing to do with us.
The more the errors of the necons are
exposed, the more frenetically they redouble their
fanaticism.
The Democratic Party is utterly useless in
dealing with this problem. Hillary Clinton just revealed herself to be
"Bush Lite" when she urged Americans to "stay the course" in Iraq. She,
like all the other leading Democrats, is dependent for her political
survival on the financial generosity of closet Greater Israelists and Israel
Firsters who are determined to push the U.S. into Joseph Lieberman's "global
religious war" (the neocons'/neolibs' World War IV).
Pretty much all we can do is stand back
and watch the U.S. go permanently downhill, as it is turned into a permanent
paranoid garrison state, at war with the entire world.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:13
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Subject: [political-research] Straw fuels
fear of rift between EU and US
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/30/wnato30.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/30/ixnewstop.html/news/2003/11/30/wnato30.xmlJack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, fuelled fears of
a transatlantic rift
over the European Union's defence policy yesterday
when he refused to
reveal how Washington had reacted to news of a
controversial deal struck by
Britain, France and Germany.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LVCCAHVYF0CLLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/11/29/weu29.xmlIt is believed that Colin Powell, the US secretary
of state, telephoned two
European foreign ministers on Friday seeking
urgent clarification of the
deal, which will allow the EU to conduct its
own military operations
independently of Nato.
The plan will also
be discussed by Nato defence and foreign ministers at
meetings in Brussels
this week, where critics are expected to include
Donald Rumsfeld, the
hawkish US defence secretary.
Mr Straw spoke to Mr Powell on Thursday,
the day after the deal was struck
in Berlin, but said his response would
have to remain one of the "secrets
of the confessional".
He refused
to be drawn on whether the Bush administration was willing to
back the
plan. "There is a process of discussion to take place with our
American
colleagues and with other partners in Nato," he said.
One Nato
diplomat, however, had already warned that the proposal - broadly
welcomed
by other EU foreign ministers meeting in Naples - was a "Trojan
horse"
that could undermine the transatlantic alliance.
Senior Washington
officials are concerned that the EU taking on an
independent defence role
will weaken Nato, the cornerstone of Western
defence for more than 50
years.
Earlier this month, President George W. Bush said that he
trusted Tony
Blair to "make the right decision" on EU
defence.
Yesterday, Mr Straw insisted that the plan would not weaken
Nato. "The
conclusion that we reached last night was one in which Nato is
accepted as
the alliance par excellence of all participating member
states, the prime
means by which we guarantee each other's mutual
defence," he said.
Any EU defence activities would be "complementary"
to the alliance.
Michael Ancram, the shadow foreign secretary, said:
"This is a sell-out by
Tony Blair. I think George Bush will be very angry
and upset by this deal.
They promised the Americans there would be no
planning capability outside
Nato. But that is what they have
agreed."
Mr Ancram said he had warned President Bush about the
initiative during his
recent meeting with Michael Howard, the Conservative
leader.
"President Bush told us that Tony Blair had assured him it
would not
undermine Nato. He said, 'I trust him and therefore I am not
listening to
you'. I think he will see this vindicates what we were
saying," said Mr Ancram.
EU diplomats said that the defence plan,
described by Dominique de
Villepin, France's foreign minister, as "a
breakthrough", would see a
skeleton staff of about 30 "operational
planners" established alongside an
existing strategic planning unit in
Brussels.
They would be put to work whenever the EU decided to deploy
its own
military force.
Nato officials are keenly awaiting further
details of the plan, which was
agreed during three-way talks in Berlin on
Wednesday and put to EU
ministers over dinner on Friday by Joschka
Fischer, Germany's foreign minister.
The Nato officials will scrutinise
the proposals for any signs of
duplication of effort. One said: "We do not
have a formal paper yet. We are
anxious to see what they have
agreed."
A Nato diplomat added: "You start with 30 people in a planning
cell and end
up with 300. It's a bridgehead to something much
bigger."
The deal came as the EU foreign ministers made limited
progress on other
disputes that must be settled if an EU constitution is
to be agreed in two
weeks' time - a deadline set by Silvio Berlusconi, the
Italian prime minister.
Diplomats put the chances at no greater than
50:50, and Mr Fischer said he
was "deeply concerned" about the prospect of
a successful conclusion.
A controversial plan - designed to make the
commission less unwieldy - that
would end the guarantee granted to each
member state to appoint a member of
the European Commission is close to
being scrapped after protests from
smaller countries.
There was,
however, broad agreement on a separate proposal for a powerful,
single EU
"foreign minister", bolstered by a team of diplomats and based at
a
centralised foreign affairs ministry in Brussels.
After what British
ministers see as a vital concession, the new supremo
will be chosen from
among the members of the European Commission, but will
not take
instructions from it.
Instead, he will come under the control of the
Council of Ministers and
thus, effectively, of the member
governments.
29 November 2003: Britain
in secret EU army deal
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LVCCAHVYF0CLLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/11/29/weu29.xml 27 November 2003: EU
redraft robs Britain of foreign policy veto
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LVCCAHVYF0CLLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/11/27/weu27.xml 26 November 2003:
Straw in trouble with Blair for sounding 'too Majoresque'
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LVCCAHVYF0CLLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/11/26/wec26.xml 24 November 2003:
Blair faces battle over EU defence
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LVCCAHVYF0CLLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/11/24/weu24.xml External
links
EU
defence plan awaits US approval [28 Nov '03] - EUpolitix
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/54a6e372-f2b8-4c10-adaa-e70b12e55edd.htm The Future of the
European Union - Europa
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=http://europa.eu.int/futurum/comm/index_en.htm Nato
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=http://www.nato.int/
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