Iraq inquiry: deal might have been ‘signed in blood’ by Blair and Bush in 2002

[deminks]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6661145/Iraq-inquiry-deal-might-have-been-signed-in-blood-by-Blair-and-Bush-in-2002.html

Sir Christopher Meyer told the Iraq Inquiry that the two men spent an afternoon meeting in private at the former president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, which appeared to lead to a shift in the then Prime Minister’s stance on Iraq.

Sir Christopher said: “I took no part in any of the discussions and there was a large chunk of that time when no adviser was there.

“The two men were alone in the ranch so I’m not entirely clear to this day what degree of convergence (on Iraq policy) was signed in blood, if you like, at the Crawford ranch.

“But there are clues in the speech Tony Blair gave the next day, which was the first time he had said in public ‘regime change’. He was trying to draw the lessons of 9/11 and apply them to the situation in Iraq which led - I think not inadvertently but deliberately - to a conflation of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

“When I read that I thought ‘this represents a tightening of the UK/US alliance and a degree of convergence on the danger Saddam Hussein presented’.”

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So much more in the article. Did they decide to hang him at the "ranch"? One wonders.

[SoCalDem]

1. "they" told him how he could become a very rich & powerful man when his PM deal was up

and all he had to do for it was to back up the Bush-clown in his insane war... oh and help to kill a couple of million people, and ruin a country..

[deminks]

2. So, lurkers, more damning proof that the wars were never about WMD or freedomdemocracy or

whatever the excuse of the day was for almost 7 years now. The UN route was just another way to justify the bloodlust, and it failed. The inspectors were not supposed to finish their work. The intelligence was cooked and forged.

This from the testimony today:

Sir Christopher said the US Department of Defense became so “irritated” by the CIA’s “bias” against this incorrect intelligence that a “rival and replacement” in-house intelligence unit was set up by the White House.

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damning indeed.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvCLjsWq_UU/SQGpsqD2FtI/AAAAAAAAAek/RuNJ7WpKBQE/s400/cheney.+sneer.jpg

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. "Go along and we'll set you up with JPMorgan."

And that's exactly what happened.

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Grrrrrrrrr." - Our sons and daughters who died needlessly

because of gross republicon lies & malfeasance & deception & treason