Meanwhile, President Bush has paid tribute to his longtime ally and partner in the Iraq War. In an interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Bush said it was unfair to call Blair a U.S. “poodle,” saying: “He’s bigger than that. … Somehow our relationship has been seen as Bush saying to Blair, 'jump' and Blair saying, 'how high?.' But that’s just not the way it works. It’s a relationship where we say we’re both going to jump together.”