Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war (9 days after 9/11)

[scottxyz]

President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1185407,00.html

[Skeptical Democrat]

1. Explosive - for Blair. But when will this be reported in the American

press? Hopefully after the Clarke book comes out and with the Vanity Fair piece. I DO hope this gets some press here.

[Eye and Monkey]

2. It seems that the Poodle suckered BushCo, at least a little, as well.

"But if Blair was misleading his own Government and party, he appears to have done the same thing to Bush and Cheney. At the Camp David meeting, Cheney was still resisting taking the case against Saddam and his alleged weapons of mass destruction to the UN.

According to both Meyer and the senior Cheney official, Blair helped win his argument by saying that he could be toppled from power at the Labour Party conference later that month if Bush did not take his advice. The party constitution makes clear that this would have been impossible and senior party figures agree that, at that juncture, it was not a politically realistic statement."

Poodle forced BushCo to send Powell to the UN to lie, in public, to the world.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Don't forget Blair's contribution to the WMDs lies

IRAQ ’S
WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT

FOREWORD BY THE PRIME MINISTER,THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE TONY BLAIR MP

The document published today is based,in large part,on the work of the Joint
Intelligence Committee (JIC).The JIC is at the heart of the British intelligence
machinery.It is chaired by the Cabinet Office and made up of the heads of the UK ’s three
Intelligence and Security Agencies,the Chief of Defence Intelligence,and senior
officials from key government departments.For over 60 years the JIC has provided
regular assessments to successive Prime Ministers and senior colleagues on a wide range
of foreign policy and international security issues.

Its work,like the material it analyses,is largely secret.It is unprecedented for the
Government to publish this kind of document.But in light of the debate about Iraq and
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD),I wanted to share with the British public the
reasons why I believe this issue to be a current and serious threat to the UK national
interest.

In recent months,I have been increasingly alarmed by the evidence from inside Iraq that
despite sanctions,despite the damage done to his capability in the past,despite the UN
Security Council Resolutions expressly outlawing it,and despite his denials,Saddam
Hussein is continuing to develop WMD,and with them the ability to inflict real damage
upon the region,and the stability of the world.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2002/09/24/dossier.pdf

[bobthedrummer]

4. Kick for the truth

[kentuck]

5. The 9/11 Commission should pursue this....

before they give it to the WH to edit out... :(

<snip>
According to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner when Blair became the first foreign leader to visit America after 11 September, Blair told Bush he should not get distracted from the war on terror's initial goal - dealing with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Bush, claims Meyer, replied by saying: 'I agree with you, Tony. We must deal with this first. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.' Regime change was already US policy

[Joanne98]

6. Blair's a fundie too

I wonder if he beleives in the rapture. The Labor Party is just like our DLC. Destroying the party from within. I hope the Liberal Democrats kick their asses in the next election. I don't think the British people are stupid enough to vote for the "Margaret Thatcher Party" (Tories+Bush) again.

[Moderator]

7. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=461812