Bush’s puppet does it again:

Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening it on global warming in a speech he delivered Friday at Georgetown University, according to a British press report Sunday that Blair’s office immediately denied.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Blair made “significant” last-minute changes to his major foreign policy address and that “objections by President George W. Bush’s inner circle played a key role in the alterations.” An official at Blair’s 10 Downing Street office, speaking on condition of anonymity as is standard practice here, said it was “categorically untrue that any White House objective played any part” in the speech.

Blair is frequently criticized in Britain for his close relationship with Bush, who is extremely unpopular among Britons. The prime minister is particularly faulted for his alliance with Bush in the Iraq war. Critics have complained that Blair seems too eager to please Bush in what many here view as a lopsided relationship that has benefited Bush far more than Britain.

Rumors are that Blair will be out by the end of the year. I am really starting to wonder if he will make it that far. Last month’s elections were devastating for him and he lost a number of towns in the U.K. I just wish we could force a President out here so easily.