The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair asked for war plans to be secretly drawn up in June 2002, almost a year before the invasion of Iraq, his former foreign policy adviser has told the Iraq Inquiry.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former prime minister denies claims that then attorney general had been pressured to change stance over legality of conflict Tony Blair has denied a claim that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general at the time of the Iraq war, was "bullied" into declaring that the invasion was legal. In an interview with CNN, the former prime minister also insisted he was not angry about proceedings at the...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Brown George Bush raised the issue of Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism during a conversation with Tony Blair just three days after the 9/11 attacks, the inquiry into the Iraq war heard today.
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair asked military chiefs to secretly prepare options for joining an American invasion of Iraq nine months before the start of the war, the inquiry into the Iraq war heard today.
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
We should have had ordinary Iraqi and British citizens on the inquiry panel A Good Comment Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Independent ".....Mandarins, secretive official dealers and others use language like floor polish – shine and gloss for listeners to skid over. Their facts are finely modulated and tempered to suit the times they find themselves in – when the country has had enough obfuscation...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Blair on CNN State of the Union from Jerusalem, earlier today. He says today's report of the Attorney General's July 2002 advice and threat to resign is not right - you don't say - but he will wait to give evidence to the Iraq Inquiry to elaborate. Embedded video from CNN Video It's quite busy at the moment, so if that link doesn't work, try this .
Alex Massie (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
My excellent chum Iain Martin observes that seven of the ten most recent polls have put the Tories below the "magic figure" of 40% support. The latest ComRes survey has them on 37%. Perhaps, he wonders, some of the core vote has been scunnered by the Lisbon Treaty shenanigans or perhaps some floating voters are concerned by a perceived Tory zeal for cutting public spending and, hence, they...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tony Blair was committed throughout the Iraq crisis to achieving an international solution through the United Nations, his key foreign policy adviser has said.
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair secretly drafted a British war plan for Iraq nine months before the invasion, it has emerged
Times Online (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Tony Blair was warned by his chief legal adviser that plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein would be illegal eight months before ordering the invasion of Iraq.
Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Tony Blair, interview transcript, 20th November, 2009: Middle East & Goldsmith on Iraq legality
The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
"The American military thought that they were fighting a war and when the war was over they were expecting to go home," David Manning, who served as a Blair's top foreign policy aide
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Sir Peter Tapsell is to contest the general election in the Conservative interest for the constituency of Louth and Horncastle, for the 15th time Normally I would not dream of quoting from a private letter, but Sir Peter Tapsell has topped his note to me "Personal (up to a point!)" so I assume he will not mind my sharing the splendid news with you. For on Friday last, Sir Peter was readopted...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
The pay he got as a teacher is interesting. Would any of our whingers here do the job for this money? Teach First claims that it expects many of...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Tony Blair was warned by his Attorney General eight months before the invasion of Iraq that war would be illegal, it has emerged.
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natwhokares | 30/10/2009
http://whokares.net/2009/10/at-the-end-a-justice-for-everyone-chirac-in-trial/ What should happened, happened at the end. In France, the president can’t be sued it’s in the Constitution, De Gaulle choice. The thing is when a French president is not in function anymore he comes back a citizen like the others. That’s why he’ll go in court soon. It’s the first time in France during the Ve Republic, a...
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