April Fools Blinking at Each Other Not Believing the Joke

It's apparently a sad day for the Imperial Dominionists, and hopefully not an April Fools:

LONDON, March 31 — After more than a week of mounting confrontation over its 15 captured sailors and marines held in Iran, Britain sounded a more conciliatory tone on Saturday, saying it had responded to a diplomatic message from Tehran and was ready to peacefully resolve the issue...

The British foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, also indicated for the first time that Britain regretted the incident.

“The message I want to send is I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen,” she said after a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Germany. “What we want is a way out of it...”

I'm sure she does, but maybe not for the reasons this man can accept:

But the overtures seem to have been rebuffed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who was quoted by Iranian state radio as saying that Britain had not followed the “legal and logical way” to defuse the crisis.

“After the arrest of these people, the British government, instead of apologizing and expressing regret over the action taken, started to claim that we are in their debt and shouted in different international councils,” Mr. Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. “But this is not the legal and logical way for this issue,” Reuters reported from Tehran...

Perhaps what Mr. Ahmadinejad wants is for Britain to, you know, put those things away.

Perhaps his message isn't framed simply at Britian, or America, or Blair, or Bu$hie at all. Maybe he realizes (although maybe not, you never know how smart these idiots are) that the real motivation for the conciliatory tone is that the Big Boss Hawg behind the gunslingers is the only playah that seems to be blinking, and he is blinking at its hired guns as much as anyone else:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 28 — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders on Wednesday that the American occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the United States would continue to dictate the region’s politics...

The Saudis seem to be emphasizing that they will not be beholden to the policies of their longtime ally.

They brokered a deal between the two main Palestinian factions last month, but one that Israel and the United States found deeply problematic because it added to the power of the radical group Hamas rather than the more moderate Fatah. On Wednesday King Abdullah called for an end to the international boycott of the new Palestinian government. The United States and Israel want the boycott continued.

In addition, Abdullah invited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to Riyadh earlier this month, while the Americans want him shunned. And in trying to settle the tensions in Lebanon, the Saudis have been willing to negotiate with Iran and Hezbollah.

Last week the Saudi king canceled his appearance next month at a White House dinner in his honor, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The official reason given was a scheduling conflict, the paper said.

Mustapha Hamarneh, director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, said the Saudis were sending Washington a message. “They are telling the U.S. they need to listen to their allies rather than imposing decisions on them and always taking Israel’s side,” Mr. Hamarneh said.

In his speech, the king said, “In the beloved Iraq, the bloodshed is continuing under an illegal foreign occupation and detestable sectarianism.”

He added: “The blame should fall on us, the leaders of the Arab nation, with our ongoing differences, our refusal to walk the path of unity. All that has made the nation lose its confidence in us...”

That is some serious blinking. But you can only send your Consigliere to speak to the Idiot Son so many times. It was okay when the Idiot Son was playing target and using his War on Terra as an excuse to shoot up things the Big Boss didn't particularly like either . But it's obvious the dumb Kid has some in his posse that simply enjoy shooting up the place.