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Date: June 18, 2007 8:05:40 AM PDT
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Subject: Britain Joined Bush's "Coalition" Hoping to Restrain Bush,
Afraid He Was Insane
Britain feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan: ex-diplomat
Sun Jun 17, 10:27 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070618/wl_asia_afp/
britainpoliticsmilitaryafghanistanus_070618020433
LONDON (AFP) - Britain joined the United States' invasion to oust
the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the shit"
out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington
reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.
In comments printed in advance in the Daily Mirror tabloid on
Monday, Christopher Meyer said that fear explained why Prime
Minister Tony Blair chose to stand with US President George W. Bush
in his decision to invade Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- to temper his
aggressive battle plans.
"Blair's real concern was that there would be quote unquote 'a knee-
jerk reaction' by the Americans ... they would go thundering off
and nuke the shit out of the place without thinking straight,"
Meyer reported told the documentary, according to the Mirror.
In other excerpts of the documentary, printed in The Observer
newspaper on Sunday, members of Blair's inner circle said the prime
minister agreed to commit troops to the March 2003 US-led invasion
of Iraq despite believing that the United States had failed to
prepare adequately for post-war reconstruction.
Channel 4 will air the first part of "The Rise and Fall of Tony
Blair" on Saturday**.
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**And don't miss "The Trial of Tony Blair" --as in War Crimes
trial-- on BBC America, on cable TV. It's a COMEDY, a typically
biting British satire indistinguishable from the truth. In it,
Blair is lampooned (i.e., accurately portrayed) as a narcissistic
yuppie clueless about the real world -- much like George Bush.
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