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Tony Blair Ignored Iraq Warning, Top General Says

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Posted on Dec 7, 2009
U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Matthew R. Jones

Add Maj. Gen. Tim Cross to that growing list of people who foresaw disaster in Iraq but were ignored. The senior British liaison to the U.S. reconstruction effort warned his prime minister before the invasion that insufficient postwar planning would lead to chaos. The rest is history.

Britain is currently holding a public inquiry into the Iraq war disaster. The proceedings have been controversial from the start. One member of the committee overseeing the investigation once predicted that George W. Bush and Tony Blair “may well, with the passage of time and the opening of the archives, join the ranks of Roosevelt and Churchill.”

Whatever its faults, pressure to hold the inquiry in the open has yielded important testimony and insight into one of the most calamitous foreign policy blunders in memory.  —PZS

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At a meeting at No 10 in February 2003, he said he conveyed his concerns to the prime minister about the lack of post-war planning in both the US and UK.

Mr Blair was “engaged”, Maj Gen Cross said, but he claimed he got the sense there was “no coherent, single focus” across the government for post-war planning, nor any clear policy direction.

“I do remember saying, in so many words, I have no doubt at all that we will win this military campaign. I do not believe that we are ready for post-war Iraq.”

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By DieDaily, December 8, 2009 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment

People keep wanting to believe that mistakes have been made in Iraq. What a joke. No mistakes were made. The plan all along was for perpetual war and they executed that plan perfectly and brilliantly. Now as we see the shenanigans in Afghanistan and Pakistan we will hear more of this drivel to the effect that we are making mistakes. Nonsense. The mission is carve up the area into mini and micro states as a means of thwarting the Russian and Chinese access to the resources of the area. It is straight out of the tired old Brzezinski playbook. The truly evil employ the sham defense of mere incompetence as cover for their successes. The elites have achieved and are achieving everything we want to in that region. At least this General is helping to expose that the puppet Blair knew exactly what he was doing and for whom he was doing it. Never fall for the incompetence defense when it comes to war. Every so called failure is no failure at all, it is billions more in profits.

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