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>> Here I think you have hit the nail on the head as to why there is so much naivety about Blair in the U.S.<<

And there, I think you have hit the nail on the head.

Sadly, few of our US friends have the opportunity to see Blair wearing his usual hat. A far, far cry from conservative. This is a man who would, customarily, agree with the last guy to leave the room if he thought it would advance his own personal agenda.

I doubt that his popularity quotient would be so high in the US if they were aware of his almost slavish adherence to the whims of his (thankfully now ex) Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell. For the uninformed, the latter is the pit-bull thug, press bully boy and self-proclaimed atheist who, effectively, ran then country whenever Tony was off accompanying Cherie on one of her mantra-chanting, chakra-seeking, crystal-rubbing, guru-hunting outings. Of course, since Fr. Russ approved then that makes it all right.

I am sure Tony would be a trifle less popular had they witnessed the occasion when, following a question to his master on the moral probity of going to war, Campbell rebuked an elder statesman of the Downing Street press corps with the scathing “We don’t do God around here!!” To a shocked room, Blair could offer no more than one of his diffident little smiles and a "Oh, you really are a godless lot around here”

So, yep, our PM is ripe for conversion to Fr Russ’s church.

Quite why Blair chose to support the war on Islamic terrorism, I don’t understand and it’s a whole, other story. Let’s just be thankful that he did so.

And, by the way, there are probably a lot of deeply offended amoebae and cockroaches out there (grin).

p.s. Just ignore the other fellow. Almost everybody else does these days.