Iraq minutes 'must be released'

[JimNich]

There was that interview with Mr Clinton a couple of years back which was actually quite enlightening. He was very supportive of our Tony (as you'd expect I s'pose, who's to say Monica never did a spit roast) and maintained that Mr T was actually in a very unenviable position at the time i.e. with a Europe (France) that would never go to war in any circumstance and the Bush administration that openly craved it. Anyway, what was intersting to me was that it was clear by what Bill said that Tony actually wasn't all that eager to go the whole hog either, all things being equal he'd have liked a bit more diplomacy.

Maybe the most embarrassing thing about all this is that it reveals how much our arm was actually twisted by Capitol Hill and its this facet which government wishes to conceal.

Then again, it might just all've been a horrendous balls up.

[Avitor]

No balls up, in my opinion. Blair was hell bent on doing Iraq. He foresaw the personal financial benefits of backing Bush. The medal was a bonus.

There were two sudden and lonely deaths, one of a resigned Minister who vehemently opposed the war and a scientist who denied there were WMD, which was Blair's excuse for attacking Iraq.

No accusations, merely the coincidental join up. Both were critical of Blair and both......are no longer with us.