Blair was told US "fixed" case for war

Blair was told US 'fixed' case for war --The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that the case for war in Iraq was being "fixed" by Washington to suit US policy, a BBC documentary will claim today. Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, briefed Blair and a group of ministers on the United States' determination to launch the invasion nine months before hostilities began in March 2003, the Sunday Times reported, citing the BBC program, which is due to be aired later in the day.

Blair manipulated intelligence to justify war, says BBC film --The BBC last night gave another sign that it is determined to maintain its editorial independence by screening a Panorama programme strongly critical of Tony Blair's manipulation of thin intelligence, on the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In the programme, Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, was reported as having told Mr Blair that Washington had fixed policy on a war against Iraq and was going to fit the intelligence around that policy.

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Where is our press report of this? Oh, yeah, the Poodle Press is too busy with Jackson, Blake, and a poor brain dead lady in Florida.

amidst the news of the complete trashing of the Constitution earlier this morning.

Amerika, the UnConstitutional.

...doesn't mean that the UK (and Europe) doesn't have a huge security interest in participating, especially considering what has happened since the invasion?

The US quite possibly intented the invasion to result in chaos and intended Iraq to turn into a SOURCE of terrorism. Look at what the UK has done in Iraq -- the parts it controls are a relative oasis of peace and stability. If things ever turn out OK in Iraq, it's might stem from the fact that the UK shows that things don't have to be crazy there. At the very least, they're letting at least some Iraqis live without being in utter fear, which would be the case if the US controlled the whole country.

Interesting theory. Hard to believe, though.

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what has happened: destabilization of the region as a justification for war without end. And I think Blair had an interest in doing what he could to make that as unlikely as possible, which required the significant participation of some European country.