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Blair bombarded President Bush with a stream of confidential advice,

Gee, thanks. How about the interest due on all that lend-lease stuff we sent ya?

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Gee, thanks. How about the interest due on all that lend-lease stuff we sent ya?

First of all, every dollar's worth of stuff we sent them in the 40s was a drop less American blood spent in defeating Hitler. Secondly, I'd say that 60+ years as the only reliable friend we have had in the world has paid whatever debt they may have had to us in full.