British Prime Minister Tony Blair was roundly mocked as a U.S. poodle on Tuesday after an off-the-cuff chat with President George W. Bush was accidentally broadcast.
The broadcast chat "reinforces the damaging public image of Blair as the U.S. president's poodle", it said.
But most damaging to Blair was what commentators saw as his plea -- rebuffed by Bush -- to be allowed to visit the Middle East to try to stop fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.
Blair suggested he could prepare the ground for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, because "if she goes out, she's got to succeed ... whereas I can just go out and talk".
The left-leaning Guardian said Blair "all but offers to carry her (Rice's) bags".
"He sounds less like the head of a sovereign government than a Bush official, waiting for the boss's green light -- which he does not give," the newspaper said.
Why anybody would kowtow to this little prick is beyond me. I think it really shows a flaw in character for Tony Blair to continue to support Bush as he careens around the world destroying America's credibility and damaging England's because they are so closely ties together.
If Blair had any guts at all he would cut his ties to the "crazy American" and approach his diplomatic problems without the American albatross around his neck.
It happens day after day: we witness the absurd spectacle of Tony Blair running off at the mouth as sponteously as he always does about any subject in the news does not hide the fact that he has never, during his long term of office, had any control over events affecting the nation. He is a mouth on legs. He is a believer in his every word. He is the most accomplished and dangerous fool this nation has ever had as a Prime Minister. In this regard he has relegated even Harold Wilson to second place. One can only hope that he ends his days regarded as the gifted but shallow failure he has proved to be.
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