I can't remember where I read about Bush and Blair's mutual dislike for each other. I know that I read about it after I read these articles by Greg Palast.

This article from The Observer has some usefull information. An interview with Buzzflash was the first tip off that something was amiss with the truth.

PALAST: You're getting warm. The answer is Irwin Stelzer. He is the guy who is a good friend of George Bush from the Hudson Institute, and the most powerful lobbyist in Britain representing British-American interests and, by the way, chief lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch. As soon as Bush seized the White House, Stelzer walked into Blair's office and said ‘we noticed that you were supporting Mr. Gore during the Presidential election' - even though clearly that didn't carry many states. Blair's effective endorsement of Al Gore did not go unnoticed. And there was a price to be paid. Blair was given a list of the things that would befall Britain from military subsidies and equipment, to a reduction of value in the dollar versus the pound, which would destroy England's exportability. And Blair was basically told get in line, stand up and salute or "here's your last cigarette, Tony."

I read this interview just before hostilities in Iraq commenced; and along with Blair 's famous Chicago speech it went a long way to understand why Blair's position regarding the Second war with Iraq.

Many of our problems have been caused by two dangerous and ruthless men - Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. Both have been prepared to wage vicious campaigns against sections of their own community. As a result of these destructive policies both have brought calamity on their own peoples. Instead of enjoying its oil wealth Iraq has been reduced to poverty, with political life stultified through fear. Milosevic took over a substantial, ethnically diverse state, well placed to take advantage of new economic opportunities. His drive for ethnic concentration has left him with something much smaller, a ruined economy and soon a totally ruined military machine.

Blair was in America drumming up support for military intervention in Kosovo. In an attempt to garner support he drew parallels between Milosovic and America's, then, current bogeyman, Saddam Hussien.


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