No excesses of Washington and Whitehall spin could disguise the fact that the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, to his Blackburn constituency and 2008 European City of Culture, Liverpool, bombed. On the scale of PR disasters, it was Titanic. She was welcomed, wrote Mary Riddell in the Guardian : “as if she were General Pinochet in Ferragamo shoes”. The woman whose administration make even the actions of that murderous old tyrant pale by comparison – he disappeared people, they disappear entire sovereign
nations as well - appropriately first visited the BAE weapons factory, manufacturer of the quaintly named “Charm 111” depleted uranium (DU) missiles fired by the Challenger 11 tanks used the in the US/UK's joint “Crusades”.
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nations as well - appropriately first visited the BAE weapons factory, manufacturer of the quaintly named “Charm 111” depleted uranium (DU) missiles fired by the Challenger 11 tanks used the in the US/UK's joint “Crusades”.
(For a better perspective, please click the photo and then continue for the full article...)