LONDON (Reuters) - Britain asked the United States on Tuesday to release five British residents from Guantanamo Bay in a change of policy that may signal Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking a more independent stance from Washington.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband sent a formal request to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the release of the five men, who were legally resident in Britain before their detention but are not British nationals.
The decision marks a shift from the policy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, which secured the release of all nine British citizens held at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba but maintained it was not responsible for detainees of other nationalities who had simply lived in Britain.
Good on ya, Gordon!! Its about time Britain began standing up for its citizens rather than standing up for Bush, in the no-win war of terrorism that Bush has brought to the world.
I'll bet Dubya lays in bed at night recounting the good old days when all he had to do was call Number 10 Downing Street and the people there would sit up and beg when they heard his voice. Now its a different story. Bush, of course, is too dumb to accept that.
Watch for the United States to invade and/or bomb Britain next. Its how he "teaches" countries a lesson. Remember?
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