Like Bush, Tony Blair too is in rough waters at home as well abroad. He is involved in scandals of corruption in contract deals and also bluffing the people with mis-information. The corruption scandal involving the Saudi officials in a 6 billion pound contract and the exposure of his mischievous dossier in 2004 about the necessity of what came out be an illegal war in Iraq for securing the nuclear weapons (WMD) ostensibly hidden by the Saddam regime have made Blair a joker in the UK.

The controversy brewing over the cancellation of an inquiry into Britain's allegedly murky arms deal with Saudi Arabia in which the Saudi officials were bribed in order to win the multi-billion pound arms deal in the1990s for the purchase of 72 Typhoon Euro-fighters from the UK has rocked the country.

The political contract to benefit his party men has badly affected the fortunes of Labor Party in the next elections. Yet, Blair defends the cancellation of the inquiry because of the "national interest" of protecting thousands of British jobs and of sustaining the vitally important Saudi relations in terms of terrorism and resolving Palestinian issue, etc. Blair, the closest among the "willing coalition partners" of unhappy President Bush, after swallowing his announcement, presumably under pressure from Bush, about withdrawal of the English troops by spring, now says that democracy in Iraq cannot be destroyed by terrorism, that the 7,000 strong troops would not be withdrawn hastily and that Iraq would be controlled until the Iraqis themselves become capable of dong so.

One does not know if he is joking without understanding the meaning of sovereignty. Could someone persuade Blair, Bush, et al. to stop lecturing about democracy, transparency and rule of law, etc, when he himself failed to defend them and failed to prove himself "whiter"? Corruption undoubtedly has been the most serious drawback harming democracies the world over.