Private letters between Tony Blair and George Bush to be published

[struggle4progress]

JULY 6, 20166:31AM
Victoria Craw & AFP

TWENTY-NINE previously secret letters between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush in the lead up to the Iraq war will be made public on Wednesday.

The correspondence will be published as part of the Iraq Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot and dubbed the “Chilcot report”.

The 2.6 million-word report, which is four times the length of War and Peace, has taken seven years to produce ...

The controversial war did not have approval from the UN Security Council and was based on the assumption that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which was later proved to be unfounded ...

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/29-private-letters-between-tony-blair-and-george-bush-to-be-published-in-iraq-inquiry/news-story/b680b121166469858fb2aaefae126c33

[Botany]

1. They lied to start that war and that got the world ISIS

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/25/tony-blair-is-right-without-the-iraq-war-there-would-be-no-isis

The 12 years since have constantly disproved both claims. Within six months of British troops landing in Iraq, the SAS was sent to Baghdad’s western outskirts to attack jihadis who had taken up residence in Ramadi. Back then, they were a mob of foreigners and Iraqis who fed off a broad Sunni discontent fuelled by the invasion; a serendipitous vanguard that not long afterwards organised into al-Qaida in Iraq, then the Islamic State of Iraq and, since mid-2013, Isis.

[struggle4progress]

2. Maybe the UK is ready to discuss it now in a way the US is not yet ready

[Botany]

3. the # of American GI causalities from Iraq is much > then the 4,860 figure

A former neighbor's son died from brain cancer and the KBR "burn pits" just
like Beau Biden might have also been given a lethal dose there too.

http://www.chicagonow.com/uncommon-sense/2015/06/was-beau-bidens-brain-cancer-caused-burn-pit-exposure-20150607/

We are talking in the 10,000 + # but please let's look at HRC's emails.