Given this-
President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001.
Did George tell you the month the Iran attack begins? Because I really don’t want to go through that pantomime dog & pony show where the PM was furrowing his brow and pretending to make a-very-tough-decision when it was all set in stone some time ago.
Ten Percent 
31 July, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Well the smart thing for Brown to do its to wait out Bush, throw some platitudes his way (although saying that the World owes the U.S. a debt is going a tad to far, just a tad) and quietly pull out of Iraq. Thats probably the only way NuLabour wins in 2009-2010.
31 July, 2007 at 11:15 pm
yeah the owes a debt thing was some purple prose alright, there is nothing to indicate Brown will be any different than Blair, he’ll moan a bit more but the end result will be the same I fear. Plus Bush gets to walk away in January 09, le3aving Brown with whatever mess he has inveigled him into, I hope Brown realizes that. He will be left with Bush’s mess (as will the subsequent US admin) and I think Bush will leave them a shitpile of a mess, he is like that. A vindictive man.
1 August, 2007 at 12:59 am
How is it militarily possible to pull off invading Iran. It is like a vision of the Apocalypse.
1 August, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I think they will just use air power and bomb the place until they get what they want, I doubt they have the ground forces, it’ll be a Kosovo-ish approach. Or another wrinkle is Israel will do the main bombing with US back up, either way unless they are hiding a significant ground force capability it will be a blitz to destroy Irans infrastructure, awful.
4 August, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I don’t think the Bush regime even realizes that they are leaving messes for other people to clean up. They seem to actually believe that they are doing just fine.
4 August, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I wonder what the conversation was like with those wingnut bloggers they had at the Whitehouse- a sort of mirror mirror on the wall scenario. Echo chamber to the power of infinity. Bush certainly won’t allow an Iraq withdrawal on his watch, the next term’s president does get a poisoned chalice.