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Can the Bush admisistration screw up anymore stuff? You bettcha and it's about to possibly cost us our only real ally. Arrogance and stupidty will be Bush II's legacy and even his father wont be able to help him.
By SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 21:31pm on 18th November 2006
British troops in Iraq
A diplomatic row erupted between London and Washington over George Bush's bid to cover up the way bungling US soldiers killed British servicemen in Iraq.
The President's envoy in the UK has been summoned to a humiliating dressing down in Whitehall tomorrow because of a White House refusal to make American troops answer in British courts for their mistakes on the battlefield.
The unprecedented move by Justice Minister Harriet Harman marks one of the biggest public rifts between the allies since Mr Blair came to power.
She will tell Deputy US ambassador David Johnson, one of George Bush's closest diplomatic advisers, that she is no longer prepared to accept America's excuses for refusing to send its servicemen to UK inquests.
Ms Harman says that in return for backing him in the Iraq war, the President has a duty to tell the truth to the families of British soldiers killed by Americans in friendly fire tragedies.
"The families want to know how their loved ones were killed," she told The Mail on Sunday. "They have got that right. I am hoping the Americans will give us full co-operation in the inquests because our special relationship demands honesty and openness.
Fury at American contempt for British war dead | the Daily Mail
By SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 21:31pm on 18th November 2006
British troops in Iraq
A diplomatic row erupted between London and Washington over George Bush's bid to cover up the way bungling US soldiers killed British servicemen in Iraq.
The President's envoy in the UK has been summoned to a humiliating dressing down in Whitehall tomorrow because of a White House refusal to make American troops answer in British courts for their mistakes on the battlefield.
The unprecedented move by Justice Minister Harriet Harman marks one of the biggest public rifts between the allies since Mr Blair came to power.
She will tell Deputy US ambassador David Johnson, one of George Bush's closest diplomatic advisers, that she is no longer prepared to accept America's excuses for refusing to send its servicemen to UK inquests.
Ms Harman says that in return for backing him in the Iraq war, the President has a duty to tell the truth to the families of British soldiers killed by Americans in friendly fire tragedies.
"The families want to know how their loved ones were killed," she told The Mail on Sunday. "They have got that right. I am hoping the Americans will give us full co-operation in the inquests because our special relationship demands honesty and openness.
Fury at American contempt for British war dead | the Daily Mail
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