Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to blame over Iraq war, says (secret UK) Army report

[sabra]

Source: Sunday Mirror

A secret report by Army bosses to be presented to the Iraq war inquiry blames Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for the botched occupation of the country.

The dossier - prepared for ex-military chief General Sir Mike Jackson - criticises then Chancellor Mr Brown for withholding funds to rebuild Basra for FIVE months after our troops went in. And the 100-page document attacks Mr Blair for "uncritically" accepting flawed US plans for the March 2003 invasion, which led to tens of thousands of deaths, including those of 179 British troops.

The report - Stability Operations in Iraq - will not be officially made public because the inquiry's head, Sir John Chilcot, ruled all documents will remain secret.

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MOST DAMNING CONCLUSIONS:

Flawed US plans were rubberstamped by Blair

Brown blocked vital funding for five months

It took mass rioting in Basra to make him pay up

Chaos lost us the battle for Iraqi hearts & minds

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/28/army-blair-brown-to-blame-over-iraq-115875-21477530/

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1. so.. it's all Blair's fault

for not realising Rumsfeld didn't have a clue what he was doing?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. See - even Iraq is part of the Michael Jackson story

:D

[lunatica]

3. Why the hell does anything have to remain a secret?

Is the world too naive and too unprepared to hear some hard facts? I bet the Iraqis have toughened up a little during the war which now turns out to be totally botched. Oops! Sorry old chaps. We sure made a royal mess of it didn't we. Well, other than a few civilians dying and such please accept our apology and we won't be making any documentation public. You'll understand right? Some things need to be kept secret because you chaps wouldn't understand. No hard feeling right?

[daleo]

4. Oh, I think Bush deserves some of the blame

Cheney too.