Britain to Obama: Stop the anti-British rhetoric

Criticizing BP is not the same as attacking Britain! This IS BPs fault isn’t it? Why shouldn’t Obama be making it clear that he is displeased with every aspect of how BP has handled this situation? If this was an Exxon spill in the North Sea and they handled it the way BP is handling this spill you can bet the Brits would be irate and their Prime Minister would take them out to the woodshed — and rightly so. I fail to see what Obama has done wrong as far as taking BP to task. But that has nothing to do with bashing the country. The Brits need to stop whining and face up to the situation.

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Umm…. where does that buck stop? What is Obama going to do when the only people not under the bus are Michelle and the kids?

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Remember the war of 1812? Kicked yo ass and burnt down your White House, prick. Anyway, it is mainly BP’s fault, they have a history for poor quality management of every plant in the US. But the blame does rest with Obama and his nation aswell. Obama’s administration were the ones that told BP that they would only be allowed to drill in deep water outside America against the advice of BP, therefore increasing the chances for a catastrophe. Secondly BP is mainly owned by America, Thirdly 60% of BP is made up of American workers, Obama’s behaviour has led to an incresing fall of share price, ultimately resulting in the loss of American Jobs.

And how can America claim a moral high ground? with such catastrophies as Bhopal which was the fault of American Companies, where over 8000 people died. We are annoyed by such double standards.

And by the way TexasFred, if Obama doesnt stop the anti-British rhetoric, we can always withdraw the support of our troops in Afganistan, we can always withdraw our Superior Special Forces which Gen.Stan McChrystal relies on so heavily. We can always dismantle your missle defence system in the UK, we can always get rid off our defence contracts with you, we can always tell your Airforce to get out of our country. And if we sever all ties with you we are already in a Union with other European States. So to conclude, stop directing criticism to the British nation because of your own stupid prejudice and acknowledge that Britain and BP are doing its best to contain this catastrophe.

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Dear Mr Dennis,

Thanks for the reply, but you forget the bigger picture of the war of 1812, America decided to invade canada (twice) the first time their force of 20,000 were pushed back by 4,500 British and they lost Detroit to the British. The second time they were more sucessful but decided that the best thing todo would be to burn down the Canadian parliament, nice move. So after Britain defeated your french allies it had time to send 20,000 troops to canada to force the Americans out of Canada. They suceeded. But lost naval battles over the lakes outside michigan. Never the less the brits went into virginia and made an example of washington and burned the WH down. Then America was forced to sign the “Treaty of Ghent” 1814 effectively ending the war. Except the fact was that two forces south hadnt realised this and essentially two weeks later engaged in Battle whereby jackson won, killing fleeing Brits in New Orleans. But, the fact is Britain stopped America from invading Canada which was the whole basis of this war in the first place. Therefore logically it is a British Victory. But America called it the “2nd war of Independance” therefore suggesting to the American mind it was some sort of Victory.

With regards to the First World war your input was meaningless being that you turned up without the right Kit and barely fought any key battles.

The second world war yes, fair enough we would have been raped. The thing that gets us though is why do you always hold this against us even though we were allies fighting together, and its not like we deny this. (Beats me.)

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