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Monday, March 21, 2005 |
CounterPunch: "About this time last year, Britain's Channel 4 News broadcast the results of an opinion survey which indicated that nine in ten Britons recognised Prime Minister Blair as a liar and a fraud. Given the revelations since then it would be mighty surprising if the public's opinion of his character has improved. He is probably the most universally despised PM in living memory."
SMH: "The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that the case for war in Iraq was being 'fixed' by Washington to suit US policy, a BBC documentary will claim today.
Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, briefed Blair and a group of ministers on the United States' determination to launch the invasion nine months before hostilities began in March 2003, the Sunday Times reported, citing the BBC program, which is due to be aired later in the day.
'What was propelling the prime minister was a determination that he would be the closest ally to George Bush and they would prove to the United States administration that Britain was their closest ally,' Cook tells the program.
'His problem is that George Bush's motivation was regime change. It was not disarmament. Tony Blair knew perfectly well what he was doing.'"
Here is the transcript of the programme. Panorama will be repeated on BBC One on Friday, 25 March, 02:30-03:30.
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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