You have to hand it to The Brown One, he really does show what a complete amatuer Bliar was when it came to spin.
TBO announces that the UK is demanding the release of 5 inmates held by the USA in the Cuban Guantanamo bay prison and the whole British media fall into a supine position and praise him for "standing up to the Americans" well actually No thats not what is happening.
Bush is now a lame duck President and unable to sustain the illegal activities, that he only got away with before because they were happening in a piece of another country illegally occupied by the US. He is bowing to US political pressure to quietly defuse the Guantanamo problem and disperse the individuals held there.
So no standing up to, just a significantly better form of spin.
Well done that man
BUT, and there is always a but, don't forget the very old maxim
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time
There is also the subject of what the hell are we in the West doing condoning the illegal occupation of a piece of Cuba in the first place, but having said that there are chunks of the UK that have been handed over to the US - Memwith Downs for instance