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He said: "I've just put on record my concerns about the tone that has developed, particularly about the personalisational issues, which is alien to us in our culture.
"And the fact it's being received over here as an anti-British rhetoric - that may not be his intent, but that is how it's reading."
Originally posted by SteveR
The US government is directly responsible for the spill. They saved BP half a million dollars (a paltry amount to the company) by lifting a requirement in 2000 to install failsafes in the oil well.
When BP drills in European waters it has to use these failsafes, but not in US waters.
They will do anything except blame themselves.
well first he refused to back the UK in the argentina falkland islands oil dispute which continues... then he demands and threatens the UK to send more troops to afghanistan... i think i could see how he could be anti-brit.