AngryCanadian
11-09-2013, 10:00 PM
According to an classified memo Bush told Blair he was ready to 'kick ass' in Iraq along with Blair. The memo where Bush has stated the 'kick ass' phrase is in memo which is still being blocked to be released to the Public.
Iraq war inquiry blocked in bid to make Bush-Blair 'kick ass' memo public (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/10/iraq-war-tony-blair-george-bush)
Contents of key conversations between Tony Blair and a bellicose George W Bush, who declares he is ready to "kick ass", are thought to be among documents relating to the Iraq war that the government is withholding from publication.
It emerged this week that the Cabinet Office is resisting requests from the Iraq inquiry, the body set up to draw lessons from the conflict, for "more than 130 records of conversations" between Blair, his successor, Gordon Brown, and Bush to be made public. In a letter to David Cameron, published on the inquiry's website, the committee's chairman, Sir John Chilcot, disclosed that "25 notes from Mr Blair to President Bush" and "some 200 cabinet-level discussions" were also being withheld.
In the play the Powell character takes a note of a conversation in which Blair originally promises Bush: "We will be with you whatever." However, the phrase is crossed out by the Powell character and replaced with the more vague pledge "you can count on us whatever", giving Blair a less definitive commitment in the note recording the conversation.
Blair's original promise, revealed in the play, will bolster his critics' claims that he had made up his mind to support the US months before the UN voted on whether to back the invasion.
Even months before the UN voted on whether to back the invasion Tony Blair's mind was already made up in those secret meetings that were closed off to the news media.
This is quite damaging for the Tony Blair supporters and Bush family.
Apparently they saw the Iraqi war that they wanted as a Video game on us.
Iraq war inquiry blocked in bid to make Bush-Blair 'kick ass' memo public (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/10/iraq-war-tony-blair-george-bush)
Contents of key conversations between Tony Blair and a bellicose George W Bush, who declares he is ready to "kick ass", are thought to be among documents relating to the Iraq war that the government is withholding from publication.
It emerged this week that the Cabinet Office is resisting requests from the Iraq inquiry, the body set up to draw lessons from the conflict, for "more than 130 records of conversations" between Blair, his successor, Gordon Brown, and Bush to be made public. In a letter to David Cameron, published on the inquiry's website, the committee's chairman, Sir John Chilcot, disclosed that "25 notes from Mr Blair to President Bush" and "some 200 cabinet-level discussions" were also being withheld.
In the play the Powell character takes a note of a conversation in which Blair originally promises Bush: "We will be with you whatever." However, the phrase is crossed out by the Powell character and replaced with the more vague pledge "you can count on us whatever", giving Blair a less definitive commitment in the note recording the conversation.
Blair's original promise, revealed in the play, will bolster his critics' claims that he had made up his mind to support the US months before the UN voted on whether to back the invasion.
Even months before the UN voted on whether to back the invasion Tony Blair's mind was already made up in those secret meetings that were closed off to the news media.
This is quite damaging for the Tony Blair supporters and Bush family.
Apparently they saw the Iraqi war that they wanted as a Video game on us.