LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Tony Blair: Bush Administration
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The feeling of many in Britain is that by allying with George Bush, Mr. Blair left a legacy of "dashed hopes and big disappointments, of so much promised and so little delivered." That's in spite of helping advance the Northern Ireland peace process, begun before he took office, and that leaders in Ireland had lots more to do with than him.
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Blair will be the sixth recipient. Previous honorees include General Colin L. Powell in 1997, Baroness Margaret Thatcher in 1999, President George H. W. Bush in 2001, General Tommy R. Franks in 2003 and John McCain in 2005.
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More importantly, Bush and Blair sought common ground on a broad range of troublesome issues where the two allies badly need each other's support, including missile defense and the containment of Iraq. The first threatens to divide the United States and Britain, and the second could leave the two isolated against countries weary of the 10-year campaign to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and of the regular bombing raids by U.S. and British fighter jets enforcing no-fly zones over Iraq.
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April 2002 Blair meets Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Blair tells the President that to gain British support against Saddam he needs to do two things – to take the diplomatic route through the UN, and to kick-start the peace process in the Middle East. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the British Ambassador to the UN, says that to the Americans “the second part came over less strongly than the first”.
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June 2: The Downing Street door has nearly closed on Tony Blair. Martin Amis has been shadowing the prime minister on his farewell tour, watching him preen in Belfast, share bonbons with the Bush administration - and get it badly wrong in Basra.
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While in Washington, Mr. Blair openly professed his love for President Bush which made The Greatest President Ever very uncomfortable, so he dealt with it the way any good American would. Mr. Blair spent 8 months in the hospital for various wounds and bruises that resulted from our fine president "Beating the gay out of him". Due to the obvious magnetism and charisma of the Greatest President Ever, the French Jew Nicolas Sarkozy ... fell under his captivating spell, leaving our Greatest President Ever to be sandwiched in a love triangle between Blair and the Jew.
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