Shoulder to shoulder.

What I don't understand is this, why is it that people keep on insisting that the UK is subordinate to America? Why is it that people have a problem grasping the idea that things in the world that our two countrys are involved in are going according to Tony Blair's plans every bit as much as they are going according to Bush's? It reminds me some what [in a roundabout sort of way] of the argument that there is no god because if there was then he wouldn't allow all of these bad things to happen and no one ever thinks that maybe there is a god and he's just an arsehole, the other argument is that god allows them to happen because of free will but that makes absolutely no sense when applyed to things such as earthquakes, and so the leaves my 'god is an arsehole argument' as being the only one that covers all situations while still allowing god to exist, interestingly the 'gods an arsehole' argument seems to offend religious folk considerably more than the 'god doesn't exist' one, but i've got rather of the beaten track here so alow me to position myself back on it.........yep there it is .... and now i'll continue. Every available peice of evidence seems to point towards Blair agreeing almost totaly with Bush and vise versa, for instance if one looks back to before the Iraq war to before I think even 9/11 one sees that Blair was actually talking to Bush about the nessesity of a second war against Iraq and the need to unseat Sadam it is entirely possible that Blair was infact one of the first to plant this idea in Bush's empty warhead of a skull. Bush if you recal back to when he was running for president ran on a platform of America looking after its own and not interfering in the world i beleive he even said 'if we leave them alone then they'll leave us alone'. Now considering that Blair was the one who talked Clinton into military intervention in Kosovo and considering that Bush's way of thinking seems to have [post 9/11] come around to Blair's perhaps it would be advisable to think of them at very least as equal allies and quite possibly as unequal allies with Blair on top. The fact that the UK as a whole has not seen the benifits of this relationship is irelevent, might it not be possible that Tony Blair is just a big arsehole who doesn't care about the people of this country only about his own agenda for the world.