Britain's "Lawrence Wilkerson": Sir Christopher Meyer Critiques (Iraq War)

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U.S.-U.K. Orchestration of Iraq War

Part of the serialization of former British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer has just hit the press in tomorrow's Guardian newspaper.

Ambassador Meyer, whom I had the pleasure of meeting many times during his tenure here in Washington, pulls no punches in this run-down of his prime minister's dance with Bush in the months before the Iraq invasion.

His intro says a lot, but read it ALL:

Hindsight usually follows failure. As I write, things looked bad in Iraq. At regular intervals over the last two years I have asked the same question of former colleagues in the British and American governments: in Iraq, is the glass half-empty or is it half-full? With one exception the answer has been "half-full".

The exception was a trusted American friend and government official, who, after paying a recent visit to Iraq, returned to tell the White House: "We're fucked."

The excerpt on Libby and Cheney is interesting -- mostly because Cheney's "Darth Vader" reputation preceded him. Meyer wanted to see Britain's options kept open -- and wanted to show that Britain was moving America on at least part of its agenda. It seemed instead Bush and Cheney were successfully seducing Blair, who was forfeiting Britan's points of leverage with "unconditional support" of Bush's regime change plans.

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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001070.html

Read the whole post, it is pretty interesting. Especially the parts describing Cheney and Libby's roles.