US Ambassador - Our links with US are still sacred

THE US Ambassador Thomas Foley is unlikely to agree with the weekend remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams about the war in Iraq.

In a stinging attack, Archbishop Williams has compared America’s actions in Iraq to the worst excesses of the British Empire.

Mr Foley has expressed the hope, and let us hope he is right, that the recent decline in car bombings and civilian casualties will bring a stable government and support for the rule of law all the closer.