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12/27/2004:

"'Special relationship' not so helpful to Blair"

Blair's support gave some credence to the President's claim that the US was leading a genuine alliance in Iraq, rather than - as Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry put it - "a coalition of the coerced and the bribed".

It enabled the President to bask in the reflected glory of a foreign leader who is not only more popular in America than in his own country, but who is - according to one poll last year - more highly regarded than Bush himself in the US.

Full Article : nzherald.co.nz