Interview: Bush warns Brown over plan to cut Iraq force - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Jun 08
  

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  • George Bush flies into London today with a warning for Gordon Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq
  • The stern message to the Prime Minister was delivered during an exclusive interview with The Observer, and contrasted with praise for Tony Blair
  • the world is in an 'ideological struggle' and that 'ultimately freedom has to defeat the ideology of hate'.
  • He said American and British troops were not 'intentionally killing innocent people', that large numbers had been deliberately killed by Saddam in the years before the war, and that Iraqis were now living under an elected government in a 'free society'.
  • He had already been urging King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to increase production.
  • And the truth of the matter is that there's either got to be more supply or less demand. And demand doesn't decline overnight' - particularly with 'big consumers of hydrocarbons' such as China 'subsidising their populations'.

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