'I'll be
with you, whatever,' Tony Blair told George W.
Bush months before Iraq invasion
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."*
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