[Marxism] Bush Blair knowingly made false claims about WMD

[Nasir Khan <naskha3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Memo confirms Bush and Blair knew claims Iraq had WMDs were lies

By Paul Bond | wsws.org,  26 June 2009

A confidential memo obtained by the Observer, detailing a meeting
between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair,
confirms their determination to press ahead with the invasion of Iraq
in 2003 without any evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and
without United Nations approval.

The five-page memo, written by Blair’s foreign policy adviser Sir
David Manning, is dated January 31, 2003, some two months before the
invasion began. It records the thinking of Bush and Blair as it became
increasingly obvious that United Nations weapons inspectors would not
find the advanced weaponry, including a nuclear capability, that both
leaders were using to justify military action.

Continued >>  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/blai-j26.shtml

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