Either that or he's desperate to show the people of Britain and the world that he was not completely played by Bush for the past seven years, that he somehow knows the real Bush who will repay a favor. Since when has Bush ever budged or given anyone anything? He's an egotistical leader who is sure of his own rightness so it's others who must bend and change, but never Bush. While I would like to think that since American leaders, our traditional allies and most of the world wants the US to change that might mean something, but this is Bush we're talking about, not a rational person who is interested in building a consensus.
Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today.Hope runs eternal, Tony. More delusional rants by Blair here, as he is convinced Bush can and will change.
Three weeks before he stands down as Prime Minister, Mr Blair will join forces with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in an attempt to secure a breakthrough in the battle against climate change. They will press a reluctant US president to agree that the world should cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050.
Such an outcome from the last international gathering that Mr Blair will attend with President Bush would at last allow him to answer critics who claim he has got little in return for his "shoulder to shoulder" support for the US President, notably on Iraq and other issues related to the "war on terror".
At the summit in Heiligendamm, the Prime Minister will also try to cement another element of his much-vaunted "legacy" - the G8's commitment at the Gleneagles summit two years ago to boost aid to the developing world by $50bn (£26bn) a year by 2010, with half going to Africa.
