Blair is nobody's poodle: Bush
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To be or not to be a poodle. That was the question and President George W. Bush answered that Britain's Tony Blair was a faithful friend, but nobody's pet.
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The British prime minister has moved from political dominance to fighting off mockery about his closeness to President Bush.
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President Bush's first postelection meeting with a foreign leader comes this week when British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a staunch ally on Iraq, is due for two days of discussions at the White House, officials said Saturday.
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As George W. Bush formulates his plans  for a Middle East without Yasser Arafat, British Prime Minister  Tony Blair will be standing where he says he belongs: right by  the U.S. president's side.
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Tony Blair will get short shrift from George W. Bush on global warming when he leads the G8 in 2005 but the fight with Washington might help him shed the "poodle" tag he got over support for the Iraq war, analysts say.
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Prime minister denies shift in US-UK relations.
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French President Jacques Chirac says Tony Blair has got little in return for supporting the US over Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair argued for greater US-EU cooperation in a column published in a French newspaper and rejected criticism that he was making his country Washington's "poodle".
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged difficult progress in the Iraq war they launched together in 2003, but both vowed to keep troops there until the fragile new government takes hold. Both admitted making costly mistakes.
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LONDON  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday rejected charges from the Conservative opposition that he &quot;misrepresented&quot; intelligence used to make the case for invading Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times - BRIGHTON, England &#8212; British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pummeled over the Iraq war, faced his critics at his Labor Party's annual conference Tuesday and said he had erred in accepting faulty intelligence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed chemical and biological weapons.
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President George W. Bush, reacting to a video warning by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, said the United States would not &quot;be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our country.&quot;
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WASHINGTON -- It was the last question Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted asked, and he seemed to cringe as President Bush answered it.
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President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have signed a treaty allowing Britain to buy defence products from the United States without individual export licences, Blair&#39;s office said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON  - President George W. Bush's first post-election meeting with a foreign leader comes this week when British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a staunch ally on Iraq, is due at the White House for two days, officials said Saturday.
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President Bush will meet next week with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a principal ally in Iraq, in his first meeting with a foreign leader since his re-election, the White House said on Saturday.
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Tony Blair is a Labour prime minister of Britain who has allied himself with the extreme right in the United States to wage an illegal war in Iraq.