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[Iraq Inquiry Digest] THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE - DAYS 3 & 4 » Iraq Inquiry Digest: “This argument about were there or weren’t there weapons of mass destruction will go backwards and forwards, I suspect, until the end of time, but American and British troops wouldn’t have been equipped with antichemical weapons defences if there hadn’t been a very strong fear, however ill-founded, that Saddam could respond with these weapons.”

[AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: British Iraq ...: The lengths the Blair government took to conceal the invasion plan and the extent of military commanders' anger at what they call the government's "appalling" failures emerged as Sir John Chilcot, the inquiry's chairman, promised to produce a "full and insightful" account of how Britain was drawn into the conflict.

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] Iraq Inquiry: Blair Told Bush He Was Willing to Join, 11 Months ...: Manning was not questioned by the Chilcot inquiry about a previously leaked document in which Manning told Blair a month earlier that he had underlined Britain's position to Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser. "I said you [Blair] would not budge in your support for regime change but you had to manage a press, a parliament, and a public opinion which is very different than anything in the States," Manning wrote.

[Patrick J. Buchanan] Iraq: The War Was illegal « Patrick J. Buchanan: Mr Blair has been appalled by the high-profile evidence given by mandarins who have appeared before the Chilcot inquiry since the first round of public hearings began last Tuesday, close friends have revealed. His image has taken a battering over the past six days, as a series of current and former public servants have given evidence that conflicts with the Government’s account of the intelligence assessment of Iraq’s weapons capability before the invasion in March 2003.

[Tony Blair] Iraq Inquiry: Sixth Day of Public Hearings, with Ricketts ...: RICKETTS: “I think the impact in Washington of the incomplete declaration was very strong because it tended to confirm the sceptics who thought that Iraq Saddam was most unlikely to comply with the resolution. Our response in London to that was to say, “Hold on, operational paragraph 4 of the 1441 provided that a further material breach was both an inadequate declaration and a failure to comply”, and we absolutely did not give up hope that, despite an inadequate declaration, we could, by effective inspection and good intelligence to the inspectors, perseverance, show progress in the inspection.

[Docudharma - Front Page] Docudharma:: Iraq War Inquiry, Day Five: Well the above is now widely known especially by the tens of tousands of Iraqi dead and their survivors and the millions of refugee's who fled in country or to neighboring countries, not to mention the rest of the World. And here the brains, civilian and military, thought when the War was over Home would be where the soldiers ended up, tell that to those who've done multiple tours since, especially the dead and maimed and their families!

[AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: UK Iraq war ...: He said that the timing of the invasion was dictated by the "unforgiving nature" of the military build-up rather than the outcome of diplomacy or UN weapons inspections, which had not been given sufficient time. British officials were left "scrabbling for the smoking gun" –

[The Hollywood Liberal] UK Iraq War Inquiry: Blair Was Told Iraq War Was Illegal, Decided ...: Sir Christopher Meyer, the ambassador to Washington at the time, told the inquiry that the Blair government had decided that it was “a complete .Blair was told the Iraq War would be illegal under international law by his attorney general.

[LaRouchePAC] Blair's Iraq War Perfidy Exposed | LaRouchePAC: We understood what Blair's role was at the time, Lyndon LaRouche said today, but what is coming out now, especially about Crawford, has not been previously divulged to the public, according to British sources. The role which Blair took, led directly to the death of British arms inspector David Kelly in July 2003, LaRouche said, and to dirty operations against LaRouche, who had been the one American statesman who had spoken out on the BBC about the false intelligence being used to motivate the war hysteria.

[ChattahBox News Blog] British Inquiry: Tony Blair and George Bush decided on Iraq war a ...: Britain’s former ambassador to Washington, the most high-profile figure to give evidence so far, testified that former British prime minister Tony Blair and George Bush agreed to a deal to go after Saddam Hussein a year before the Iraq war.  Sir Christopher, who was Britain’s ambassador to the US between 1997 and 2003, was called to give evidence about the changing nature of British and American policy towards Iraq in the two years before the invasion of March 2003. Meyer, then Britain’s ambassador to Washington, said Blair’s line seemed to harden following talks at the Crawford ranch in April 2002, much of which were held in private with no advisers present.  He said that the timing of the invasion was dictated by the “unforgiving nature”

[The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)] Iraq war enquiry - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com): Sir Christopher shed new light on the "special relationship" between Britain and America. He recalled suffering "massive anxiety" in 2001, faced with the prospect that Tony Blair would not hit it off with the newly elected George W Bush, in the same way that Mr Blair had bonded with Bill Clinton.

[Anorak News] Anorak News » Blog Archive » Chilcot Inquiry Into Iraq War: Day 2 ...: SIR Christopher Meyer has been testifying to the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war. He says the US was going to war in Iraq whether Britain joined them or not.

[AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Blair agreed ...: Tony Blair made it clear to George Bush at a meeting in Texas 11 months before the Iraq invasion that he would be prepared to join the US in toppling Saddam Hussein, the inquiry into the war was told today. The prime minister repeatedly told the US president that British policy was to back United Nations attempts to seek Iraq's disarmament, Sir David Manning, his foreign policy adviser, told the inquiry.

[Dandelion Salad] Iraq Inquiry: Sir Christopher Meyer Confirms That Iraq War Was ...: Meyer, who was Britain’s ambassador to the US between 1997 and 2003, was speaking about British and American policy towards Iraq between the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of March 2003. He explained how, before 9/11, the general feeling in the Bush administration was that Iraq was “running out of steam,” and that it was a low priority, but that, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, Iraq rose to the top of the US agenda.

[NIGERIA GENERAL DISCUSSION BLOG WEBSITE] NIGERIA DEBATE, FREE TALK, SHOW, PEOPLE, GROUP, CHAT, VOICE ...: Sir Christopher said the UK believed it was “pointless” to resist US plans for regime change in Iraq a full year before the invasion and speculated that the path to war was set at a meeting between the two leaders at President Bush’s Texas ranch in April 2002.

[Asia News Network] Christopher Meyer, Ex-UK Envoy: US Focused On Iraq Hours After 9/11: Blair should have withheld British cooperation in a military offensive until detailed plans were drafted for action after Saddam Hussein was toppled, Meyer said. Blair could also have demanded Bush address the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said.

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