The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries (126 page)

Tony Blair is about to tell the TUC that he must return to London.

Bush speaks to Blair by phone the following day as Condoleezza Rice stares out through the Oval Office window.

Bush waves the Stars and Stripes and shows solidarity with rescue workers at Ground Zero.

The Blairs in the US: Tony Blair, Laura Bush and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani applaud President Bush’s speech to Congress.

Cherie looks at the helmets representing some of the firemen who lost their lives.

Tony and Cherie Blair, Kofi Annan, Hillary and Bill Clinton join in singing a hymn at a memorial service in New York.

Osama Bin Laden is one of the FBI’s twenty-two ‘most wanted’ members of al-Qaeda.

Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq.

A headline greeting Bush’s labelling of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as ‘the axis of evil’.

TB and his two GBs: together in Washington on the day Bush hailed Blair ‘a true friend’ ...

... and a cartoonist’s take on Gordon Brown’s troubled relationship with Blair ...

... which at times could not be hidden from the cameras.

Transport secretary Stephen Byers.

Byers’ political adviser Jo Moore, whose political career came to be defined by one email about ‘burying bad news’.