Fear and More Fear in the Land of the Two Rivers

The court case being held at the Old Bailey on the leaking of documents detailing a Bush/Blair conversation on, inter alia, the proposal to bomb Aljazeera, is a window on the fantasy world of the relationship between this menage a deux. The old saying by Hunter Thompson that when the going gets tough, the tough turn weird could hardly be more apt. Difficult enough for Dubya to turn any weirder, you may say, but the Blair dimension in this is more interesting. Dubya's and his surrogate's most recent venture into the surreal and paranoid bizarro-world they inhabit will get unwelcome attention in the mainstream media in the UK. This will be picked up by the news - sites and bloggers (god bless 'em) and relayed to the world. Bush and his flying monkeys will try to spin it as usual when it emerges he wasn't joking about bombing Aljazeera, but what can Blair say? People in the UK won't buy the kind of hogwash that Fox News/CNN and the tame US media(Woodward School) will accept from the Bushies - it's clear that they will accept anything. Blair may have to finally cut Dubya adrift as a result of this. Of course, he should have done so long ago, even before Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.
Don't underestimate the significance of the case and watch out for the fallout from it.