Yeah well, we're fairly annoyed with this :
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has protested to the US about its use of Prestwick Airport in western Scotland to transport bombs to Israel.
Amid the Lebanon crisis, she said it seemed the US was ignoring procedure, and she registered her concerns with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
SNP leader Alex Salmond claimed the UK government must decide whether to "be an aircraft carrier" for the US.
The Lib Dems suggested the Americans were taking the UK for granted.
Mrs Beckett was asked about the controversy after discussing the Middle East crisis with fellow foreign ministers in Rome.
"We have already let the United States know that this is an issue that appears to be seriously at fault, and we will be making a formal protest if it appears that that is what has happened," she said.
Opposition parties have reacted angrily to a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with laser-guided bombs landed at Prestwick en-route to Israel from the US.
The Israelis have requested the munitions to attack bunkers being used by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
'Special relationship'
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell called for the UK government to respond.
"If these reports are true, it is particularly provocative for the United States to have acted in this way," he said.
"It can only reinforce the belief of many that Britain is taken for granted in the so-called special relationship.
"Who knows how many of these munitions may be used to cause the kind of damage to Lebanon which the prime minister of that country described in Rome as cutting his country to pieces."
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I find being made unwittingly complicit in Israel's slaughterfest far more worrying than Nightvision goggles finding their way to Hizb'allah