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Tony Blair secretly promised George Bush he would lead a public relations drive to promote the Iraq War, it was revealed last night.
The former prime minister's pledge, which was approved by the then US president, is disclosed in a Downing Street memo leaked to the Daily Mail.
It was written by Mr Blair's foreign policy chief Sir David Manning one day after Mr Blair's summit with Mr Bush at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, a year before the conflict.
It was not until two years after the war that evidence emerged suggesting Mr Blair had 'signed in blood' at Crawford a deal to back Mr Bush's plan to bomb Iraq.
Sir David is credited with playing a major role in brokering the Iraq War pact between Mr Blair and Mr Bush. He makes it clear his memo – sent to then foreign secretary Jack Straw's principal private secretary Simon McDonald and copied to Mr Blair's No 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell – was top secret.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e-d-spin-the-iraq-war-to-the-world/ar-AASy5EY
The former prime minister's pledge, which was approved by the then US president, is disclosed in a Downing Street memo leaked to the Daily Mail.
It was written by Mr Blair's foreign policy chief Sir David Manning one day after Mr Blair's summit with Mr Bush at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, a year before the conflict.
It was not until two years after the war that evidence emerged suggesting Mr Blair had 'signed in blood' at Crawford a deal to back Mr Bush's plan to bomb Iraq.
Sir David is credited with playing a major role in brokering the Iraq War pact between Mr Blair and Mr Bush. He makes it clear his memo – sent to then foreign secretary Jack Straw's principal private secretary Simon McDonald and copied to Mr Blair's No 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell – was top secret.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e-d-spin-the-iraq-war-to-the-world/ar-AASy5EY
