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07-06-2016, 03:17 PM
'I'll be with you, whatever,' Tony Blair told George W. Bush months before Iraq invasion
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LONDON — Eight months before the Iraq war, the then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote to George W. Bush saying he would be with him "whatever," the chairman of a long-awaited inquiry said.*
In presenting the results of a seven-year inquiry into the Iraq war, Sir John Chilcot said that on July 29, 2002, Blair wrote a confidential memo to Bush saying "I will be with you, whatever."
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The inquiry concluded that the UK "chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament were exhausted."*
The UK planning and preparation for the war were "wholly inadequate" and in March 2003 there was "** imminent threat from Saddam Hussein."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/whatever-blair-bush-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — Eight months before the Iraq war, the then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote to George W. Bush saying he would be with him "whatever," the chairman of a long-awaited inquiry said.*
In presenting the results of a seven-year inquiry into the Iraq war, Sir John Chilcot said that on July 29, 2002, Blair wrote a confidential memo to Bush saying "I will be with you, whatever."
SEE ALSO: The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/chilcot-inquiry-numbers-tony-blair-iraq-war/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The inquiry concluded that the UK "chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament were exhausted."*
The UK planning and preparation for the war were "wholly inadequate" and in March 2003 there was "** imminent threat from Saddam Hussein."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/whatever-blair-bush-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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