Cynics and wags may look at the Anglo-American 'special relationship' and deride the Brits as America's poodle. But you look at Tony Blair's speech at the Labour Party Conference today and you say ... some poodle!

"This is a battle with only one outcome - our victory, not theirs ... Let there be no moral ambiguity about this, nothing could ever justify the events of 11 September, and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could ..."

This is one of the many reasons why folks with politics of the TPM variety love Tony Blair.

We're smitten. We're in love. We've fallen and we can't get up.