Blair Takes The Higher Ground

The Mirror is reporting that Tony Blair is refusing to be enlisted in George W. Bush's re-election campaign, i.e., refusing to come the States to be given a major award by the president. Blair's position is that he can't possibly accept such an award while American and British soldiers are still dying in Iraq. Good for him. This is clearly another attempt, like with McCain, to link Bush to somebody that the American people like a lot more than the president.

One quibble about the article, though. It lists the award Blair is declining as the Congressional Medal of Honor, which it further describes as the highest award America can bestow on a foreigner. Is all this true? I was under the impression that the CMoH was the highest award that the government could bestow on a citizen, so either the article has misidentified the medal, or else we're the only country that doesn't preserve its highest honors for citizens.