On a visit to cement ties with the government of Indonesia, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was met with several questions about the invasion and occupation of Iraq from students at an Islamic boarding school. One student asked: “Does your excellency ever ask your best friend Mr. George W Bush, the president of the United States of America, to stop the war in Iraq because I heard that United Kingdom is the country that always help America to defeat Iraq, even if they know America is completely wrong. Thank you very much.”

Blair replied: “Whatever we thought about the original decision to remove Saddam, today we should work with the United Nations and with other countries to make sure that the Iraqi people get the same rights as we have in the UK and you have here and that’s what I want to see.”