So CPA officials were wearing Bush Cheny t-shirts at off-duty functions

[MSgt213]

Britain, America begin to diverge in Iraq
Troubling signs between key coalition partners

After more than a year of seemingly seamless coordination between the United States and Britain in Iraq, cracks are beginning to appear in both the strategic political goals of the Anglo-American alliance and over tactical military questions.

With battles between American forces and Iraqi insurgents raging around the Sunni city of Fallujah and the Shiite city of Najaf, senior British officers, politicians and former diplomats have grown bolder in their criticism of American tactics, criticized as heavy-handed and prone to alienating potential allies among the Iraqis.

At the same time, Prime Minister Tony Blair finds himself increasingly isolated from his Labor Party, from the British diplomatic service and public opinion over Middle East policy in general and Iraq in particular. As framed in an open letter Tuesday by 52 former British diplomats, including many who supported Blair in the past, Britain for too long remained silent as "heavy weapons unsuited to the task in hand, inflammatory language, the current confrontations in Najaf and Fallujah, all these have built up rather than isolated the opposition."

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The official also cites a complaint voiced by several British officials involved in Iraq: that their American counterparts took no pains to hide their own ideological goals in getting Iraq pacified. One described senior CPA officials at off-duty functions "wearing Bush-Cheney T-shirts."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4853940/

[Bozita]

1. Why not? It's their war. They broke it. They own it.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Too bad we all have to "pay" for it.

[Bozita]

3. That's where "democracy" kicks in.

Pass the credit cards please.

[durutti]

4. Certified Public Accountants?

What's CPA?

[MSgt213]

5. Colition Provisional Authority