Christopher Meyer
Christopher Meyer
Sir Christopher John Rome Meyer, KCMGis a former British Ambassador to the United States, former Ambassador to Germanyand the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission...
john last reminds smell
There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,
absolutely horns impossible ourselves
I think the U.S. and ourselves are on the horns of an absolutely impossible dilemma.
supporters
O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,
agreed both britain dependent fully iraq war
Britain should have made its participation in any war dependent on a fully worked-out plan, agreed by both sides, for the rehabilitation of Iraq after Saddam's demise,
bush faced might seemed war wrong
Indeed, if it all went wrong at the UN, and the U.S. was faced with going to war alone, it seemed to me that Bush might blink.
avoided britain entire fatal iraq might prove saddam violence
Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.
appeared blair chose definitive glamour highest moral proximity seduced stand team though
Blair chose to take his stand ... from the highest moral ground, ... It is the definitive riposte to 'Blair the Poodle', seduced though he and his team always appeared to be by the proximity and glamour of American power.
ace america junior partner sleeve
We may have been the junior partner in the enterprise, but the ace up our sleeve was that America did not want to go it alone.
aircraft caribbean fighter hours moving number putting
We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fighter and bomber aircraft on 48 hours notice, if the need should arise.