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[gothwalk]

About the Bush UK visit:

Mr Bush will also be protected by hundreds of armed guards from the US... They will not be granted diplomatic immunity, and will face courts if they shoot anybody, the Home Office has promised.

The fact that the Home Office had to make any such assurance, even the possibility that they might shoot someone, is wholly fucking ridiculous, no? Bush is entering the UK with a small bloody invasion force. You'd think the tens of thousands of people preparing to attend protests would send a "You're not welcome" message...

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[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

Well, there was that incident in korea last year where two soldiers ran over some children, killing them ( I believe there was some controversy as to their sobriety - or something that put them even more at fault) and the US thumbed its nose at korean law.
So if IF something similar happened in the UK it would naturally be a PR nightmare but more to the point, I would be surprised, nay utterly STUNNED if the soldiers weren't released for trial in the US. That said of course, the UK is America's only real ally in the Iraq mess and probably need to keep them sweet but I wouldn't expect that the US would see the UK as anything more than someone to justify the war (see recent steel tariffs that are bollocking the UK steel industry).