Summary
PARIS - Tony Blair has just suffered his first parliamentary defeat - an overwhelming one - since taking office more than two terms ago. It rejected his insistence on imitating George W. Bush's limitation on civil liberties and amendment of the right to habeas corpus to serve the war on terror. Britain's parliament said no.
Coincidentally, Britain's former ambassador in Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, is publishing an indiscreet book ("D.C. Confidential") on the relations of Prime Minister Tony Blair with President George W. Bush as they went to war against Saddam Hussein - lacking an internationally defensible casus belli. There were, as we know now, and as the people in the know knew then, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.See the full content of this document
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Blair's Sycophancy Toward Washington Is Puzzling
(The notion that "all the Western intelligence services believed that Iraq had WMD" is not true. They all knew that the Americans believed it was true. But the U.N. inspectors in Vienna believed that Iraq had abandoned its WMD efforts...
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