Blair tried to block US inquiry into WMD

Downing Street attempted to block the White House from holding a bipartisan inquiry into the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because Tony Blair was in "denial" about the issue, a new book discloses today.
The book reveals that Downing Street was given short shrift when it launched an eleventh-hour bid to persuade the White House to think again. "You have your politics, we have ours," the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Mr Blair's senior foreign affairs adviser, when he attempted to intervene.
The disclosure of private Anglo-American tensions is made by the journalist John Kampfner in an updated version of his book, Blair's Wars, serialised in today's Guardian.
Kampfner, political editor of the New Statesman, writes that Downing Street was largely kept in the dark about the inquiry, first hinted at by President Bush on January 30.
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1225579,00.html


Sounds like the White House has been jerking Tony around ..

It sounds like it was a "choker".

:eyes:

Keep him in their boundries alright.

Boo-Hoo! The poodle got his chain yanked.

Hey, Tony-boy, when you take on the job of lapdog, you get treated accordingly by your master. Yelping about it only makes you more pathetic.

This is amazing! What did it uncover? /sarcasm off

that the whole thing was a sham. Doesn't the thought, of Tony having heart symptoms over a phony investigation, just bring tears to your eyes?

Jerking that poor poodle around like that!