Peter, my definition of the "Special Relationship" label is that the Yanks do not give a

as long as they are o.k.and I have experienced this criteria on my visits to the States and it makes me mad as there is nothing worse than the way they treat the coloured population but they were more than happy to draft them into the Yankee Army in WW2 and I saw personally,,although young, the way they treated them and even to this day, it makes bad memories but now they can hold their heads high as they have one of their own gender in the White House and by golly jimminy,, it sucks

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