Tony Blair’s “shoulder to shoulder” support for
George Bush has been called into question again by claims that he was
“brainwashed” by President Bush over plans to pull troops out of Iraq.The Prime Minister returned yesterday from his seven-nation
visit to the Middle East, apparently without achieving any significant
breakthrough in the peace process. [..]The trip has been overshadowed
by a growing perception that Mr Blair’s relationship with President
Bush is very much a “one-way street” in which Britain gets very little
in return for his unwavering public backing for Washington. Even some
Blairites are starting to question the Prime Minister’s stance. They
are appalled that President Bush has refused to honour his 2004 promise
to expend “capital” on the Middle East peace process during his second
term. “He doesn’t cut Tony much slack,” one Blair aide said yesterday.For someone who is often described as a “lucky” politician,
cabinet ministers believe that Mr Blair was extremely unlucky to have
President Bush in the White House for the past six years.
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