Blair 'was warned of Iraq chaos' - Democratic Underground

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Sat Sep-18-04 08:54 AM
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Blair 'was warned of Iraq chaos'

BBC News snip:

Tony Blair was warned by Jack Straw there could be post-war problems in Iraq, according to newspaper reports. The foreign secretary's warning came over a year before coalition forces invaded, the Daily Telegraph said.

In one letter, he told Mr Blair no-one had a clear idea of what would follow the invasion, the paper reported.

The Foreign Office said it would have been "irresponsible" not to consider these issues before the war and said Iraq was now on a path to democracy.

It came after footage of three blindfolded men, said to be a Briton and two Americans kidnapped in Baghdad on Thursday, was shown on Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3668016.stm

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Bush was AWOL

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Sat Sep-18-04 08:57 AM
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1. Blair and Bush both warned, but neither cared

why?

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Sat Sep-18-04 09:09 AM
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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=836015

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