It’s Official: Blair Misled the Public and the Chilcot Inquiry
by Felicity Arbuthnot / October 19th, 2015
In what The Mail on Sunday has described as a “bombshell White House memo”, leaked classified correspondence from then Secretary of State General Colin Powell to President George W. Bush, of March 28th, 2002, alleges that Tony Blair had done what the newspaper calls “a deal in blood” with Bush to support him, come what may, in the attack on Iraq – a full year before the invasion.
Blair at the time was claiming to be seeking a diplomatic solution in the Iraq crisis. “We’re not proposing military action”, he told the public, as he prepared “to act as spin doctor for Bush”, states the Mail which also reveals Powell’s affirmation that “the UK will follow our lead.”
Blair continued to claim to have made no decision regarding military action for most of 2002. A diplomatic solution was being pursued, he stated. Since there was no US or UK Embassy in Baghdad and UK Ministers and their US counterparts refused to travel there or engage with the Iraqi government, his assertions never rang even vaguely true. Powell’s memo proves the lie. Headed: “Memorandum to the President; Subject: Your Meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 5-7, 2002, Crawford, Texas”, he states:
Blair continues to stand by you and the US as we move forward on the war on terrorism and on Iraq. He will present to you the strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for our common cause.
Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/10/its-official-blair-misled-the-public-and-the-chilcot-inquiry/#more-60173
Delusional, or a compulsive liar.
