Gwynne Dyer (Toronto Star): Waiting for the tooth fairy

[Dudley_DUright]

Every night when they go to bed, just after they've said their prayers, U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair each tuck a tooth under their pillows. They've been good boys and they won their war fair and square, so surely one of these days the tooth fairy will come and leave some Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in its place.

But the days turn into weeks and months, and still the tooth fairy doesn't come.

Meanwhile, the crowd outside is getting ugly — especially in Britain, where Blair's credibility has been severely damaged by the perception that he distorted what the intelligence services actually said about the alleged threat from Iraq in order to manufacture a case for following the United States into war.

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But the tooth fairy is clearly not going to show up — and the truth fairy is on her way at last.

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[Kolesar]

1. Bush and Blair are stalling, buying time

That is their only hope.

"It's impossible to say if the progressive unravelling of the lies will ultimately ruin Bush or Blair. They are both adroit politicians who know how to turn the public's short attention span to their advantage. " -Dyer