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The Warrior.(Tony Blair's popularity falling in Great Britain but not in the United States.)
It was Thursday, March 20. The United States had begun bombing Baghdad in the predawn hours. According to a new inside account of the prime minister at war, "Thirty Days," by the British journalist Peter Stothard, the assault started sooner than Blair expected. As his inner circle knew, if the public found out that the prime minister was caught by surprise, it would reinforce criticism among Britons that he was little more than President George W. Bush's "poodle" in the Iraq war. As the P.M. huddled with his closest aides to prepare for a televised address to the nation, he didn't need to be reminded of that. "How should I start?" he asked. Blair's smart-aleck communications czar, Alastair Campbell, had a suggestion. How about "My fellow Americans..."
Campbell's joke was a good one, but for Blair it was no laughing matter then--and it is even less so today. When Blair flies into Washington this week to address a joint session of Congress, Americans will see one Blair and Britons another. Americans, including some who are not enamored of Bush, lionize Blair for his loyalty since 9-11 and for his articulate arguments in favor of invading Iraq. Later this year he is expected to become the first Briton since Winston Churchill to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. A headline on the op-ed page of The New York Times last week--in blair we trust--is typical of the adulation.
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