Will Obama nurture the Britain-U.S. “special relationship”?
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The George Bush-Tony Blair, joined-at-the-hip partnership remains an indelible souvenir of the period leading up to the outbreak, in early 2003, of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and of the way it played out through the end of Blair’s tenure as Britain’s prime minister (which ended in June 2007). The Bush-Blair war-buddies show also served to highlight, for better or worse, the strength of the much-ballyhooed United Kingdom-United States “special relationship,” a diplomatic pairing that is deeply rooted in the history the two countries inescapably share.
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