Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood'
with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR
before the invasion had even started
Leaked White House memo shows former Prime
Minister's support for war at summit with U.S. President in 2002
Bombshell document shows Blair preparing to act
as spin doctor for Bush, who was told 'the UK will follow our lead'
Publicly, Blair still claimed to be looking for
diplomatic solution - in direct contrast to email revelations
New light was shed on Bush-Blair relations by
material disclosed by Hillary Clinton at the order of the U.S. courts
By GLEN OWEN and WILLIAM LOWTHER IN WASHINGTON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=171088#171088
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 17 October 2015 | UPDATED: 07:15, 18 October 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html
A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the
first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged
by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War.
The sensational leak shows that Blair had given
an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict
a year before the invasion started.
It flies in the face of the Prime Minister’s
public claims at the time that he was seeking a
diplomatic solution to the crisis.
He told voters: ‘We’re not proposing military
action’ – in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals.
All sewn up: President George Bush and UK prime
minister Tony Blair at the infamous 2002 summit
at Bush's ranch house in Crawford, Texas, where
the two men spoke about invading Iraq
Bombshell dossier: U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell, left of Bush, wrote to the president to say the UK 'will be with us'
The classified document also discloses that Blair
agreed to act as a glorified spin doctor for the
President by presenting ‘public affairs lines’ to
convince a sceptical public that Saddam had
Weapons of Mass Destruction – when none existed.
In return, the President would flatter Blair’s
ego and give the impression that Britain was not
America’s poodle but an equal partner in the ‘special relationship’.
Chilcot names the date - but not one Iraq families want:...
Former British Prime Minister and former Labour
MP for Sedgefield, Tony Blair gives a speech to
waiting party members ahead of a visit to the
construction site for the new Hitachi Trains
Europe factory on April 7, 2015 in Sedgefield, England.
The visit came as part of Labour's campaign build
up ahead of the General Election on May 7 which
is predicted to be Britain's closest national election.
The damning memo, from Secretary of State Colin
Powell to President George Bush, was written on
March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous
summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas.
In it, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with
us’ on military action. Powell assures the
President: ‘The UK will follow our lead’.
Big man? Blair's ego was flattered by the
President during his visit to his ranch home. He
is pictured above embracing First Lady Laura Bush
The disclosure is certain to lead for calls for
Sir John Chilcot to reopen his inquiry into the
Iraq War if, as is believed, he has not seen the Powell memo.
A second explosive memo from the same cache also
reveals how Bush used ‘spies’ in the Labour Party
to help him to manipulate British public opinion in favour of the war.
The documents, obtained by The Mail on Sunday,
are part of a batch of secret emails held on the
private server of Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal.
Former Tory Shadow Home Secretary David Davis
said: ‘The memos prove in explicit terms what
many of us have believed all along: Tony Blair
effectively agreed to act as a frontman for
American foreign policy in advance of any
decision by the House of Commons or the British Cabinet.
‘He was happy to launder George Bush’s policy on
Iraq and sub-contract British foreign policy to
another country without having the remotest
ability to have any real influence over it. And in return for what?
For George Bush pretending Blair was a player on
the world stage to impress voters in the UK when
the Americans didn’t even believe it themselves’.
Davis was backed by a senior diplomat with close
knowledge of Blair-Bush relations who said: ‘This
memo shows beyond doubt for the first time Blair
was committed to the Iraq War before he even set foot in Crawford.
'And it shows how the Americans planned to make
Blair look an equal partner in the special
relationship to bolster his position in the UK.’
Blair’s spokesman insisted last night that
Powell’s memo was ‘consistent with what he was saying publicly at the time’.
The former Prime Minister has always hotly denied
the claim that the two men signed a deal ‘in
blood’ at Crawford to embark on the war, which started on March 20, 2003.
The Powell document, headed ‘Secret... Memorandum
for the President’, lifts the lid on how Blair
and Bush secretly plotted the war behind closed doors at Crawford.
Powell says to Bush: ‘He will present to you the
strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that
he believes will strengthen global support for
our common cause,’ adding that Blair has the
presentational skills to ‘make a credible public
case on current Iraqi threats to international peace’.
Five months after the summit, Downing Street
produced the notorious ‘45 minutes from doom’
dossier on Saddam Hussein’s supposed Weapons of
Mass Destruction. After Saddam was toppled, the
dossier’s claims were exposed as bogus.
Nowhere in the memo is a diplomatic route suggested as the preferred option.
Instead, Powell says that Blair will also advise
on how to ‘handle calls’ for the ‘blessing’ of
the United Nations Security Council, and to
‘demonstrate that we have thought through “the
day after” ’ – in other words, made adequate provision for a post-Saddam Iraq.
Critics of the war say that the lack of
post-conflict planning has contributed to the
loss of more than 100,000 lives since the
invasion – and a power vacuum which has
contributed to the rise of Islamic State terrorism.
Significantly, Powell warns Bush that Blair has
hit ‘domestic turbulence’ for being ‘too pro-U.S.
in foreign and security policy, too arrogant and
“presidential” ’, which Powell points out is ‘not
a compliment in the British context’.
Powell also reveals that the splits in Blair’s
Cabinet were deeper than was realised: he says
that apart from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, ‘Blair’s Cabinet
shows signs of division, and the British public
are unconvinced that military action is warranted now’.
Powell says that although Blair will ‘stick with
us on the big issues’, he wants to minimise the
‘political price’ he would have to pay: ‘His
voters will look for signs that Britain and
America are truly equity partners in the special relationship.’
The President certainly did his best to flatter
Blair’s ego during the Crawford summit, where he
was the first world leader to be invited into Bush’s sanctuary for two nights.
Tony and Cherie Blair stayed in the guesthouse
close to the main residence with their daughter
Kathryn and Cherie’s mother, Gale Booth. Bush
took the highly unusual step of inviting Blair to
sit in on his daily CIA briefing, and drove the
Prime Minister around in a pick-up truck.
Mystery has long surrounded what was discussed at
Crawford as advisers were kept out of a key meeting between the two men.
Sir Christopher Meyer, who was present in
Crawford as Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S.,
told Chilcot that his exclusion meant he was ‘not
entirely clear to this day... what degree of
convergence was, if you like, signed in blood at the Crawford ranch’.
But in public comments during his time at
Crawford, Blair denied that Britain was on an unstoppable path to war.
‘This is a matter for considering all the
options’, he said. ‘We’re not proposing military action at this point in time’.
Close: Bush and Blair are pictured above shaking
hands at a meeting near Camp Davis in February 2001
Bush and Blair on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in '02
During his appearance before the Chilcot inquiry
in January 2010, Blair denied that he had struck
a secret deal with Bush at Crawford to overthrow
Saddam. Blair said the two men had agreed on the
need to confront the Iraqi dictator, but insisted
they did not get into ‘specifics’.
‘The one thing I was not doing was dissembling in
that position,’ he told Chilcot.
‘The position was not a covert position, it was
an open position. This isn’t about a lie or a
conspiracy or a deceit or a deception. It’s a
decision. What I was saying... was “We are going
to be with you in confronting and dealing with this threat.” ’
Pressed on what he thought Mr Bush took from
their meeting, he said the President had realised
Britain would support military action if the
diplomatic route had been exhausted.
In his memoirs, Blair again said it was ‘a myth’
he had signed a promise ‘in blood’ to go to war,
insisting: ‘I made no such commitment’.
Critics who claimed that Mr Blair acted as the
‘poodle’ of the US will point to a reference in
Mr Powell’s memo to the fact Mr Blair ‘readily
committed to deploy 1,700 commandos’ to
Afghanistan ‘even though his experts warn that
British forces are overstretched’.
The decision made the previous October in the
wake of the September 11 attacks led to
widespread concern that the UK was entering an
open-ended commitment to a bloody conflict in
Afghanistan – a concern many critics now say was well-founded.
Mr Powell’s memo goes on to say that a recent
move by the U.S. to protect its steel industry
with tariffs, which had damaged UK exports, was a
‘bitter blow’ for Blair, but he was prepared to
‘insulate our broader relationship from this and other trade disputes’.
The memo was included in a batch of 30,000 emails
which were received by Mrs Clinton on her private
server when she was US Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013.
Another document included in the email batch is a
confidential briefing for Powell prepared by the
U.S. Embassy in London, shortly before the Crawford summit.
The memo, dated ‘April 02’, includes a detailed
assessment of the effect on Blair’s domestic
position if he backs US military action.
The document says: ‘A sizeable number of his
[Blair’s] MPs remain at present opposed to
military action against Iraq... some would favor
shifting from a policy of containment of Iraq if
they had recent (and publicly usable) proof that
Iraq is developing WMD/missiles... most seem to
want some sort of UN endorsement for military action.
‘Blair’s challenge now is to judge the timing and
evolution of America’s Iraq policy and to bring
his party and the British people on board.
'There have been a few speculative pieces in the
more feverish press about Labor [sic] unease re
Iraq policy… which have gone on to identify the
beginnings of a challenge to Blair’s leadership of the party.
'Former Cabinet member Peter Mandelson, still an
insider, called it all "froth". Nonetheless, this
is the first time since the 1997 election that
such a story is even being printed’.
The paper draws on information given to it by
Labour ‘spies’, whose identities have been hidden.
It states: ‘[name redacted] told us the intention
of those feeding the story is not to bring down
Blair but to influence him on the Iraq issue’.
‘Some MPs would endorse action if they had proof
that Iraq has continued to develop WMD since UN inspectors left.
‘More would follow if convinced that Iraq has
succeeded in developing significant WMD
capability and the missiles to deliver it.
'Many more would follow if they see compelling
evidence that Iraq intends and plans to use such
weapons. A clear majority would support military
action if Saddam is implicated in the 9/11
attacks or other egregious acts of terrorism’.
‘Blair has proved an excellent judge of political
timing, and he will need to be especially careful
about when to launch a ramped-up campaign to
build support for action against Iraq.
'He will want neither to be too far in front or
behind US policy... if he waits too long, then
the keystone of any coalition we wish to build
may not be firmly in place. No doubt these are
the calculations that Blair hopes to firm up when he meets the President’.
A spokesperson for Tony Blair said: ‘This is
consistent with what Blair was saying publicly at
the time and with Blair’s evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry’.
Neither Mrs Clinton nor Mr Powell replied to requests for comment.
SENSATIONAL BLAIR EXPOSÉ - YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why have these memos come out now?
The U.S. courts have ruled that 30,000 emails
received by Hillary Clinton when she was U.S.
Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 should be released.
She may have asked for these documents to grasp the background to the Iraq War.
What was the Crawford summit?
The meeting between Blair and Bush at the
President’s Texan ranch in April 2002, 11 months
before the outbreak of war. The pair spent long
periods discussing Iraq without their advisers,
leading to suspicion that they privately cut a deal for the conflict.
UK Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer said it was
impossible to know whether a deal was ‘signed in blood’.
What did Blair say at Crawford?
At the start of the summit, Mr Blair said: ‘We’re
not proposing military action at this point in time.’
For the whole of 2002, Blair claimed no decision
had been taken and in the run-up to war. He said
that Saddam Hussein could avoid conflict by
co-operating with UN weapons inspectors.
What happened after Crawford?
In September 2002, in an attempt to prove Saddam
was a threat, No 10 falsely claimed Saddam could
deploy biological weapons ‘within 45 minutes’,
and Mr Blair went around the world trying to drum
up UN backing for action against Iraq.
Despite mass anti-war protests, Britain and
America invaded Iraq in March 2003 without the backing of the UN.
Had the allies prepared for ‘the day after’?
The invasion was declared complete on April 15,
2003. But the reason for war proved spurious, and
Saddam’s removal left a power vacuum filled by
warring factions which some say helped Islamic State rise.
Have the memos been seen by the Chilcot Inquiry?
It is not thought the £10million, six-year
inquiry has asked to see American Government material.
Stunning memo proves Blair signed up for Iraq
even before Americans - comment by former shadow home secretary David Davis
This is one of the most astonishing documents I have ever read.
It proves in explicit terms what many of us have
believed all along: Tony Blair effectively agreed
to act as a front man for American foreign policy
in advance of any decision by the House of Commons or the British Cabinet.
He was happy to launder George Bush’s policy on
Iraq and sub-contract British foreign policy to
another country without having the remotest
ability to have any real influence over it.
And in return for what? For George Bush
pretending Blair was a player on the world stage
to impress voters in the UK when the Americans
didn’t even believe it themselves.
Blair was content to cynically use Britain’s
international reputation for honest dealing in
diplomacy, built up over many years, as a shield
against worldwide opprobrium for Bush’s ill-considered policy.
Judging from this memorandum, Blair signed up for
the Iraq War even before the Americans themselves did. It beggars belief.
Blair was telling MPs and voters back home that
he was still pursuing a diplomatic solution while
Colin Powell was telling President Bush: ‘Don’t
worry, George, Tony is signed up for the war come
what may – he’ll handle the PR for you, just make him look big in return.’
It should never be forgotten that a minimum of
120,000 people died as a direct result of the Iraq War.
What is truly shocking is the casualness of it
all, such as the reference in the memo to ‘the
day after’ – meaning the day after Saddam would be toppled.
The offhand tone gives the game away: it is
patently obvious nobody thought about ‘the day
after’ when Bush and Blair met in Crawford.
And they gave it no more thought right through to
the moment ‘the day after’ came about a year
later when Saddam’s statue fell to the ground.
We saw the catastrophic so-called
‘de-Baathification’ of Iraq, with the country’s
entire civil and military structure dismantled,
leading to years of bloodshed and chaos. It has
infected surrounding countries to this day and
created the vacuum into which Islamic State has stepped.
This may well be the Iraq ‘smoking gun’ we have all been looking for.
In full: The Blair/Bush White House documents
Pictured below is the memo from Secretary of
State Colin Powell to George W Bush
Part two: This second, explosive memo, drafted by
the U.S. Embassy in London, reveals how Bush used
Labour 'spies' to manipulate British public opinion
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