{"id":1571,"date":"2006-08-17T05:13:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T09:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2006-08-17T05:13:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T09:13:39","slug":"bush-is-crap-says-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Bush is crap, says Prescott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning &#8216;cowboy&#8217; President at private meeting<br \/>\nBy Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article1219716.ece\">Published: 17 August 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush&#8217;s administration in a single word: crap.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister&#8217;s condemnation of President Bush and his approach to the Middle East could cause a diplomatic row but it will please Labour MPs who are furious about Tony Blair&#8217;s backing of the United States over the bombing of Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The remark is said to have been made at a private meeting in Mr Prescott&#8217;s Whitehall office on Tuesday with Muslim MPs and other Labour MPs with constituencies representing large Muslim communities. Muslim MPs wanted to press home their objections to British foreign policy and discuss ways of improving relations with the Muslim communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/sideshow.me.uk\/saug06.htm#08170327\">into the crapper<\/a> UK&#8217;s terror investigation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/001622.html\">goes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning &#8216;cowboy&#8217; President at private meeting By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor Published: 17 August 2006 John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}