Blair Visit Shadowed by Britain's Iraq Doubts Story aired: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives in Washington tomorrow to address a joint session of Congress and to meet with President George W. Bush.
When the trip was first planned, it was to have been a victory visit, and Blair was to have been given a Congressional Gold Medal, the first Briton to be so honored since Winston Churchill.
Now, the award been cancelled, or at least postponed, and reports say this has happened because of fears it would play badly in Britain.
Amid simmering differences between the U.S. and Britain over intelligence claims on Iraq and over the treatment of British prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Tony Blair arrives for a very different visit than he may have first imagined.
Guests:
Hugo Young, political commentator with the Guardian newspaper.
