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Post Believes The US Is At WAR With The UK
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 12, 2010
Modified Jun 12, 2010
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With the US-UK World Cup match starting at 2:30 p.m. (EST) and BP's oily mess in the Gulf Coast, the Post decides, "It's the Revolutionary War, Round 2. While tens of millions settle in to watch England and the United States in their first match of the World Cup today, the leaders of the two testy allies will be butting heads over BP and the Gulf oil spill... The two teams have been bitter rivals in the past, but anger over the Gulf mess raises today's game to a new level." And a former British ambassador said "relations between the two countries are in 'a bit of a crisis.'"
Based on President Obama's anger at BP, some British business leaders say that his administration is using "anti-British" language when discussing the spill. Obama called Prime Minister David Cameron and a No. 10 Downing Street spokesperson said, "President Obama said to the Prime Minister that his unequivocal view was that BP was a multinational global company and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity... The President made it clear he had no interests in undermining BP's value." Here's the BBC News' take on why BP is important to the British economy.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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