Blair falsely blamed Chirac over Iraq: aide

[JohnyCanuck]

Source: AFP

LONDON — Tony Blair played the "anti-French card" by falsely blaming then-president Jacques Chirac for the collapse of talks at the United Nations on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an aide told Britain's war inquiry Wednesday.

Stephen Wall, Blair's former EU adviser, said the ex-prime minister ordered his media chief Alastair Campbell to tell journalists that Chirac had threatened to veto any Security Council resolution -- even though they knew Chirac had not.

"The prime minister was giving Alastair his marching orders to play the anti-French card," Wall told the Iraq war inquiry in London.

"I do recall getting a call from Joyce Quin, a former Europe minister, who said to me 'Do the prime minister and Alastair know that what they're claiming Chirac said isn't what he actually said?' and I said 'Joyce, I believe they do know'."

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Kennah]

2. Blair calls Iraq a success ...

... while Chirac says the world can never again afford the luxury of another Blair success.

[Wilms]

3. How middle-school of him. n/t

[JackRiddler]

4. Alastair Campbell - real-life inspiration for Malcolm Tucker

[fascisthunter]

5. what a worm of a man

[JohnyCanuck]

6. And the guy claims to be a sincere Christian.

Doesn't he know the Bible says that all liars are to be cast into the lake of fire?

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

- Revelation 21:8

[Nihil]

7. Why do you think he converted to Catholicism?

He needed to buy enough indulgences to clean up a truly blackened
and bloodstained soul ...