Oct 30, 2004

Blair Lied To Parliament- New Evidence

News: "US gave date of war to Britain in advance, court papers reveal By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor 27 October 2004 Secret plans for the war in Iraq were passed to British Army chiefs by US defence planners five months before the invasion was launched, a court martial heard yesterday. The revelation strengthened suspicions that Tony Blair gave his agreement to President George Bush to go to war while the diplomatic efforts to force Saddam Hussein to comply with UN resolutions were continuing. Alan Simpson, the leader of Labour Against the War, said the documents were 'dynamite', if genuine, and showed that Clare Short was right to assert in her book, serialised in The Independent, that Mr Blair had 'knowingly misled' Parliament." Continued.........

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