[lbo-talk] Direland: Straw fired over Iran?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Straw is unceremoniously dismissed -- and sent to the same job given 
Robin Cook when he proved ideologically unsound.  (Will Straw now die 
mysteriously on holiday, as well?)  Beckett has proved herself a 
reliable Blair loyalist (even when she had "doubts"), which Straw 
clearly did not, in regard to Iran.  Like Auden's citizen, she "held the 
proper opinions for the time of year; / ... when there was war, (s)he 
went..." --CGE

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:


> He may well have done, but Margaret Beckett has been made Foreign 
> Secretary in his place and her record of having restored Export Credits 
> for the Iranian regime to buy arms when she was Secretary of State for 
> Trade and Industry may well prove a wee bit embarrassing.  Beckett also 
> expressed some doubts about the Iraq war (before voting for it), which 
> Straw did not.  There again, her hostility to nuclear power-based 
> solutions to carbon emissions may well stand in her favour when it comes 
> to being bellicose about Iran's programme.
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