Iraq’s vice president is accusing British Prime Minister Tony Blair of backing out of a pledge to push for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. Speaking in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tariq al-Hashimi said Blair had been convinced by a timetable proposal and had promised to raise it with President Bush. But Hashimi says Blair backed out after meeting with the president at the White House. Hashimi says he believes Blair was “blackmailed” and “brainwashed.”