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[PRI's The World] British inquiry into Iraq war continues | Homepage Feature | PRI's ...: MARCO WERMAN:  This is the World.  I’m Marco Werman.  Americans still have questions about the decision to go to war in Iraq.  Some wonder what intelligence the Bush Administration had on the regime in Baghdad and whether it was entirely truthful in what it told the public about that information.  Still, there have been no high level government investigations of the process.  There have been in Britain though, including one that started this week.  Today’s star witness was Christopher Meyer, Britain’s Ambassador to the United States at the time.  The World’s Laura Lynch reports from London.

[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”

[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.

[War on Terror - Al-Qaeda] Claim Blair 'deliberately' linked Iraq and al-Qaida - LexisNexis ...: British Foreign Office officials have repeatedly told the official inquiry, sitting in London, that British intelligence had no evidence of any connection between the Iraqi regime and al- Qaida. Meyer said the "real problem" was that US military was planning an invasion in March 2003 which left the British and Americans "scrambling" to find proof that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in time.

[IrishExaminer.com - World] Claim Blair 'deliberately' linked Iraq and al-Qaida | Irish Examiner: It was still unclear exactly what the two leaders discussed in private, but afterwards there was an apparent shift in the British position. "I took no part in any of the discussions and there was a large chunk of that time when no adviser was there.

[Dr Nasir Khan] The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq « Dr Nasir Khan: The failure to find any WMD in Iraq following the March 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of that country by US and British troops continues to haunt those who were involved in making the decision for war. The issue of Iraqi WMD, and the role it played in influencing the decision for war, is at the centre of the ongoing Iraq war inquiry being conducted by Sir John Chilcot.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - World Iraqi PM: Election dispute poses risks to security ...: Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday. US, UK sought 'smoking gun' for Iraq war (Brisbane Times) British and US government officials had scrambled to find a “smoking gun” to justify invading Iraq in 2003, an inquiry into the conflict has heard.

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Iraq: did Blair firm up the US alliance to buy support for the ...: This shows that Mr Blair and Mr Bush wanted power and force to show that they were strong leaders , Iraq will be stain on our history like Suez , We dont even have relible numbers of the Iqaqis whodied and have been displaced, We have now made Iran a bigger threat in the region , This ego trip politics must never be allowed to happen again .

[Armoredd] Iraq war inquiry: Britain heard US drumbeat for invasion before 9 ...: Pressed today by Sir Roderic Lyne, a member of the inquiry panel and a former UK ambassador to Moscow, to explain the JIC’s assessment of the threat posed by Iraq at the time, Ricketts replied that it was a “major feature on the agenda but by no means dominant”. The Balkans, Sierra Leone - where British forces were facing down rebels - and Afghanistan, were considered a higher priority, though attempts by Saddam to get his hands on weapons of mass destruction was “a continuing threat”, he added.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: Set that against Sir Jeremy's skin-saving revisionism about American "noises" that were "decidedly unhelpful to what I was trying to do [at the UN] in New York". Moreover, "I myself warned the Foreign Office … that I might have to consider my own position .

[SWJ Blog] 26 November SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): members and other foreign allies have expressed reluctance to send more soldiers because of the Afghan war’s growing unpopularity in their countries and increasing concerns over corruption in President Hamid Karzai’s government. The Obama administration views a substantial contribution from its allies as a way to keep the American troop increase lower and blunt domestic political criticism of the Afghan war.

[Craig Murray] Craig Murray - Iraq Inquiry: The First Big Lie: The evidence that Blair blatently broke international law and is a war-criminal, is pretty overwhelming, however, there is no real will to pursue the matter, because this would effectively put the 'west' on trial as well, and the conclusion that our political system is degenerate, ineffective, corrupt, rapacious, agressive, criminal, and we are led by facist gangsters in smart suits, is simply beyond the pale.

[The Economist: Charlemagne's notebook] The pity of Herman Van Rompuy | The Economist: the likes of Blair as president could very quickly lead to break up of the European Union. the politicians and journalists that want to see such a divisive figure as Blair become spokesman for near 500 million people seem far more intersted in the projected the image of unity within Europe at the expense of actual real unity between nations, especially between east/west.

[Streams of consciousness] Pippi's ClipBoard « Streams of consciousness: Bacterial disease brucellosis found in Idaho cow: “The infectious bacterial disease brucellosis* has been found in a beef cow in eastern Idaho, and state agriculture officials are scrambling to see if the infection is isolated or if .“

[TakePart Blog Network » Environment] Earth Day Quotes about Mother Nature and the Environment ...: Karl believes that the two Gulf Wars were driven by a desire to seize and control oil reserves - which is slightly bizarre, given that Iraq's oil could more easily and cheaply have been controlled by propping up Saddam rather than removing him. But this war-for-oil thesis apparently knows no bounds, with Karl glibly suggesting that everything from the civil war in Sudan to the two World Wars can be put down `in part' to a scramble for oil.

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