Senior officer urged Blair to delay Iraq invasion

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/senior-officer-urged-blair-to-delay-iraq-invasion-1835867.html

By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent

Monday, 7 December 2009

Tony Blair was warned two days before the invasion of Iraq that plans for post-war reconstruction were not even close to being completed and that military action should be delayed, a senior military adviser has revealed.

In his dramatic evidence given to the Iraq inquiry, Major General Tim Cross, who was sent to Washington to monitor the Bush administration’s post-war planning, said he told the former Prime Minister no military action should be carried out until a coherent plan had been drawn up to deal with its aftermath.