Guardian has a good article on Blair’s failed policy to influence Bush by supporting the war on terror.

Choice quotes:

*The prime minister’s evident faith that he could turn Bush green if only for the duration of a single South African photo opportunity seems all the more naive because the very idea conflicts with the president’s two deepest political principles: - Do what your biggest campaign contributors tell you to do.

  • Don’t do what your daddy did when he was president .*

and > The British rationale for the blank-cheque support offered to US foreign and security policy relies heavily on the “change-from-within” argument – employed by many an erstwhile student radical on taking up a lucrative job in the City.

Because sometimes you forget just how bad he is.