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Is Blair Really Astonished By Coverage of Downing Street Memos?

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Is Blair Really Astonished By Coverage of Downing Street Memos?

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The Diplomatic Times Review is not surprised that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is denying the accuracy of the Downing Street Memos, which suggest that U.S. President George W. Bush was determined to invade Iraq despite a lack of evidence that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was involved in Al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attack on the United States. The Associated Press, which interviewed Mr. Blair June 29, 2005, put it this way: Despite his strong linkage of the Iraq campaign to the Sept. 11 attacks, Blair denied that the decision to go to war had been fixed long before it was carried out. He said the so-called “Downing Street memos,” which suggest the Bush administration had made up it mind to invade by 2002, painted a distorted picture. “People say the decision was already taken. The decision was not already taken,” he said. The AP said, “according to the minutes of the meeting where the leaked memos were taken, Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of Britain’s intelligence ser

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