Tony Blair's Top Aide Publishes Diaries
Published: 7/10/07, 10:07 AM EDT
By JILL LAWLESS
LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair's government colleagues had serious doubts about the invasion of Iraq, a former top aide said in diaries published this week.
Alastair Campbell, Blair's powerful chief spin doctor between 1997 and 2003, wrote that Blair showed no doubts about joining the U.S.-led war, which divided his governing Labour Party and the country.
"All of us, I think, had had pretty severe moments of doubt but he hadn't really, or if he had he had hidden them even from us," Campbell wrote in an entry dated March 18, 2003 - a day after Parliament voted to endorse war. "Now there was no going back at all."
At a Cabinet meeting a day earlier, Campbell wrote, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Labour Party chairman John Reid "and one or two others looked physically sick."
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