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Edwards had asked Clinton to call Blair on his behalf to help get him a meeting on a European junket Edwards hopes will help burnish a perception that he has foreign policy experience.

But no sooner did Edwards walk out of the meeting, which lasted longer than Edwards expected, than he was on a conference call to reporters in Washington in North Carolina crowing about the meet. Edwards claimed that he and Blair hit it off, but that may be because, according to British press sources, Edwards told the Labour PM that he supported the Bush agenda on Iraq and terrorism without hesitation.

"Blair's people said he was quite the suckup, as you say," says a British foreign affairs reporter in London. "We all understood that this man wasn't serious about anything, it was all for his domestic aims. None of us really knew who Edwards was."

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