Can we get in on that?

According to this NYTimes article, Britain is offering something fairly extraordinary:

Britain is planning a new effort to help poor countries reduce their huge debts by offering to pay off 10 percent of the total owed to international agencies and challenging other nations to follow suit, said Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said shortly after Bush received word of this, he was on the phone to Blair, leaning on the prime minister to amend the offer from "third world" to "first world". He noted that most third world countries do not, in fact, sympathize with the Coalition of the Willing, that people "won't never learn" if they are continually bailed out, and that they'd probably just end up resenting the help. He then suggested that all that money would just end up in the hands of Osama bin Laden.

Blair was reportedly unconvinced by this.

Bush ended by entreating his friend, "C'mon, Tony . . . Toni--Tone, I really need that money."

Tony, was that an offered hand shake or an errant Judo-chop?