His deal? Easy, Britain is awash in Muslims, including many terrorists. This gives Tony the chance to jump on two bandwagons at once, (1)The War, so nobody can criticize him. (2) He can co-opt the nationalist right in England, simply by cracking down on the Muslims. Who, BTW, really, really need it right now.
This may be a 10-year war that gives Britain 10 more years of this Clinton-clone-clown. Talk about unintended consequences!
IMHO,THE big reason you missed is Blair and his fellow socialists see this as a way to suck Bush into replacing Bubba on their march towards "The Third Way" world gooberment. A "World Declaration of War Against Terrorism" is a natural document to proclaim a ban on the private possession of weapons,and a PERFECT PR opportunity to try and push this home. IF they can suck Bush into this,imagine the immense pressure ALL these countries can bring on him/the US at one time to ban privately-owned firearms in America. I can see the national and international headlines now,"Bush asks for help fighing terrorism,yet refuses to even disarm American terrorists!"
Blair is a fascist who was happy being Bubba's buttboy. That should be all the information anyone needs to know about him.
BTW,I forgot to mention the obvious. People here in the US now are starting to be concerned about "National ID's". Wait until the EU gears up and joins forces with the new "Homeland Uber Alles Office" or whateverthehell they are calling it,and we find that the "National ID" cards we agreed to "in order to help fight terrorism" suddenly morph into "INTERNATIONAL ID cards." Gonna be just a bit too late to start bitching about it then,though.
Somebody needs to do a musical parody of "The Beat Goes On",and turn it into "The Third Way Marches On".