From CNN on Tony Blair

I'd generally agree with the assessment CNN provides on the meeting between Blair and Bush tomorrow. Tony may be running out of cat lives at this point unless he's able to push Bush forward. I wonder how Tuesday's presidential press conference played in the European press.

From the article:

Blair, who meets Bush at the White House Friday, must prove wrong those critics who say London's cherished "special relationship" with Washington is a one-way street, analysts say.

..."Blair has to try and demonstrate that he can have some influence on Bush, to get him to see the subtleties of the Iraq situation," said Wyn Grant, politics professor at Warwick University.

The impression that Blair can restrain Bush and his troops or can help secure a United Nations resolution on Iraq would give his standing a much-needed boost, analysts say.