Bush Meets the New Guy

New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has paid his first visit to America as a national leader, and to the shock of many Brits, praised the president:

GORDON Brown last night praised George Bush for leading the global war on terror — saying the world owed America a huge debt.

The Prime Minister vowed to take Winston Churchill’s lead and make Britain’s ties with America even stronger.

Mr Brown stunned critics by THANKING President Bush for the fight against Islamic extremism, and insisted the UK-US relationship will be his No1 foreign policy priority.

He said on his first visit to the President’s US retreat at Camp David: “Winston Churchill spoke of the ‘joint inheritance’ of our two countries.”

The PM said that meant “a joint inheritance not just of shared history but shared values founded on a shared destiny”.

He added: “America has shown by the resilience and bravery of its people from September 11 that while buildings can be destroyed, values are indestructable.

“We acknowledge the debt the world owes to the US for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism.”

The British antiwar crowd will not be pleased, and it probably won't take two minutes before the "poodle" talk is resurrected. I'm sure they thought they had finally ended that with the departure of Tony Blair. Just look at the way the Sun writes the article - the CAPS are theirs, I didn't add them. You can almost see the shock on their faces. I guess they thought Brown was going to come over here and chew out President Bush.