More than toothpaste binds Blair and Bush

[sharonstone]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=404637§ion=news

LONDON (Reuters) - It's so much more than toothpaste now.

When George W. Bush and Tony Blair first met at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, the folksy right-leaning Texas rancher and the sophisticated left-leaning London lawyer seemed like the oddest couple ever to head up the transatlantic special relationship.

Asked what they had in common, Bush quipped that they both used Colgate.

But two years and two wars later, the fates of the U.S. and British leaders, who meet in London this week, are as tightly coiled as those of any since Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during World War Two.

So far, the benefits seem to have gone only one way.

[Sliverofhope]

1. The question of how

Blair could ever follow Bush's lead approximately equal to asking how the GOP, even moderates, will follow DeLay and the leadership?

What does it all mean?

[alexwcovington]

2. So Bush doesn't brush his teeth, eh?

Sorry, bad joke...

[schultzee]

3. His teeth are OK , other attributes like intellect and courage are not.