Report on the Bush/Blair press conference

From the Guardian:

The president looked slightly nervous. He kept shooting Tony Blair an "I know that face, now where did I meet him?" look, though I was hypnotised by the movements of his lips. First the upper one clamped over the lower. Then the lower lip opened slightly to the left and, next, to the right. Then the upper lip widened out in a faintly simian way; like so many politicians, even abroad, he has begun to resemble his Steve Bell cartoon.

He looked like a man who has just realised that he had forgotten to take the chewing gum out of his mouth. He can't let on, but is scared he might swallow it, so he tucked it between his teeth and his jaw.

And yes, he does say "terror" as "turr".

...There was nothing about Mr Bush's steel quotas. Mr Bush said he would make a "timely" decision, and Mr Blair echoed him: "The administration will make its decision in the coming period of time," which was evasive, even for him.

[T]he man from ITV asked [Bush] why so many people here hated him, and he replied vaguely that freedom was beautiful.

Bizarrely, the most controversial thing he might have said was his assertion that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

That is bizarre. John Ashcroft will be apoplectic. And the Oaf of Office may just have dealt himself out of all the fundamentalist votes for 2004.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.