Bush 'brainwashed' Blair over Iraq

Yeah we sure as hell believe that, he sure had to be brainwashed.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was in favour of announcing a timetable to pull troops out of Iraq, but was "brainwashed" out of it by US President George W. Bush, Iraq's Vice President said in a speech in New York today.Tareq al-Hashemi told New York's Council on Foreign Relations that when he spoke to Mr Blair about three months ago, the British leader was supportive of his appeal for the US and Britain to say when they would withdraw."I had just convinced him," Mr Hashemi said. "He promised he was going to discuss the subject with President Bush, but at the end of the day, it's quite unfortunate, that your president (made) some sort of brainwashing of Mr Blair."But Mr Hashemi also said any withdrawal of troops should be conditional on US training of Iraq's security forces.

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