How Blair joined Bush's Iraq 'crusade' revealed

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How Blair joined Bush's Iraq 'crusade' revealed
London | January 05, 2006 5:08:51 PM IST


A documentary drama produced by a British TV channel, to be screened on Monday, has revealed how British Prime Minister Tony Blair yielded to US President George Bush's wish that the UK should join its "war on terror" soon after the 9/11 air attacks on the US' twin towers of World Trade Centre. According to it, Bush told Blair that first he would invade Afghanistan (to catch al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden), then Iraq, and lastly North Korea or Iran, The Mirror reported.

It projects how Blair gave a blind eye to the popular opinion in UK against joining US' war on terror, and decided to join hands with Bush. It provides the most in-depth and "accurate" account of the private conversations between President Bush and Blair, and features newsreel film of the 9/11 attacks and real footage of all the main speeches that followed the Twin Towers atrocity that killed more than 2,000.

According to the paper, the 90-minute documentary "Why We Went To War", based on information collected from "impeccable sources", includes look-alike characters depicting Bush, Blair, ex-British secretaries Robin Cook and Clare Short, both of whom later resigned as a mark of protest against Blair joining the war, Blair's former Media Chief, and many more surrounding Blair in 10 Downing Street.

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The documentary shows Cook and Short telling Blair about their fears if he joined the US coalition. At one stage, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw tells Blair in a memo: "There are not many in the Parliamentary Labour Party who are for military action. The big question I have to ask is, what will it achieve?"