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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1225577,00.html
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