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    How Did Bush And Blair Plan For The War In Iraq?

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    How Did Bush And Blair Plan For The War In Iraq? Empty How Did Bush And Blair Plan For The War In Iraq?

    Post by Rocky Tue 01 Feb 2022, 8:21 am

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    It was first published by (AFP) on: January 13, 2022. An “exceptionally” sensitive confidential memo was published completely. Reveals what was actually discussed on Bush's ranch in Texas, on April 6, 2002.
    Note: In April 2002, Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, visited US President George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. The weekend meeting has long been identified as a key moment to actually carry out the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, but the details of what was discussed between the parties remained a matter of speculation. Middle East Eye has seen a copy of a classified memo about the meeting, written by David Manning, Blair's chief foreign policy adviser, who accompanied him to Crawford. It was sent to Simon MacDonald, chief private secretary to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and shared with five other senior British officials: Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, Mike Boyce, Chief of Defense Staff. Peter Watkins, First Private Secretary to Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, Christopher Meyer, UK Ambassador to the US. and Michael Jay, Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office for Commonwealth Affairs.
    Subject - Related to the Iraq War: (Secret Memorandum of Plans to Overthrow Saddam Hussein) written by David Manning, former British Prime Minister and Chief Foreign Adviser to Tony Blair, during the meeting between Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush during his visit to the United States - at his ranch in Texas in 5-7 April 2002. At that time, the details of what was discussed remained unknown until now.
    Posted: April 8, 2002 From: David Manning To: Simon MacDonald, Jonathan Powell, Sir Mike Boyce, Peter Watkins, Christopher Meyer.. Sir Michael Jay, Mrs. Blair are guests of the President and Mrs. Bush is in Crawford, Texas, from 5 to 7 April.
    Among the issues discussed in the meeting were Iraq and other topics.
    A lot of (Blair Bush's) discussions were just reactionary. However, Jonathan Powell and I joined the President and the Prime Minister at Crawford Ranch for informal talks on the morning of Saturday, April 6th. Condi Rice (Bush's national security adviser) and Andy Card (Bush's chief of staff) accompanied Bush. Among the issues discussed were the "Iraqi issue" and other topics separately. This letter (memorandum) is exceptionally sensitive and the Prime Minister has instructed that it be kept very tightly, that it should be shown only to those who have a real need for knowledge and no further copies should be made. Bush said he and the prime minister had discussed Iraq alone over dinner the night before. Currently, the US Central Command has not had a successful war plan.
    Although a very small Central Command cell was recently created in conditions of extreme secrecy to consider detailed military planning, so far the thinking has been broad and focused on the future.. 99 percent of Central Command, Condi Rice said, were unaware So. And when we get more work done, Bush will be willing to agree that US and UK planners sit together to consider options. He wants us to work together while pursuing these issues, whatever plan will emerge, and we must ensure victory, because we cannot afford to fail. But it is necessary to ensure that action against Saddam will enhance, rather than undermine, regional stability.
    Therefore, the Turkish president assured that there is no question of the disintegration of Iraq and the emergence of a Kurdish state. However, there were a number of issues that could not be resolved. Including his lack of knowing who will replace Saddam, if and when we brought him down. But he did not care much about such matters. He worked on the assumption that anyone would be better. However, Bush agreed that we need to manage the public relations aspect of all this with great care. He agreed that we needed to put Saddam immediately before the UN inspectors, and we had to tell him we wanted proof of his claim that he was not developing weapons of mass destruction. This can only be achieved if UN inspectors are allowed entry on the basis that they can go anywhere inside Iraq at any time. Bush added that Saddam could not be allowed to have a say in the nationality or composition of the inspection team. He said the timing of any action against Saddam is very important. He does not want to launch any process before the US congressional elections in the fall. Otherwise, he will be accused of promoting war for electoral benefit. In fact, this meant that there was a window of opportunity between the beginning of November and the end of February.
    "Although we may not decide to do it this year at all," Prime Minister Blair said. But no one can doubt that the world would be a better place if there was regime change in Iraq. But if the inspectors are not kept up, we should think carefully about how we can put Saddam's ultimatum to let the inspectors do their work. It is very likely that Saddam will try to obstruct their work and play time. This is why it was so important to insist that they should be allowed in at any time and be free to visit any place or facility. The Prime Minister added that we need an accompanying public relations strategy that highlights the dangers of Saddam's WMD program and his appalling human rights record.
    Bush firmly agreed.. The Prime Minister said that this approach will be important in managing European public opinion and in helping the president build an international coalition. And he, Blair, will assure the European partners that Saddam has been given an opportunity to cooperate. And if Saddam fails to do so, as he expects, Europeans will find it more difficult to resist the logic that we must take action to deal with an evil regime that threatens us with a weapons of mass destruction program. We will still be faced with the question: Why did we decide to act now, what has changed? The answer would be that we should think ahead. That's one of the lessons of 9/11: Failure to take action in time means that the risks will only increase and may force us to take more costly action later. The president agreed with Blair's line in the controversy.
    Comment to the “Memorandum Writer”: The Prime Minister later commented to me privately that he had spoken again to Bush on the issue of UN inspectors. Bush has admitted that there is a possibility that Saddam will allow the inspectors to enter and do their own business. If it happens, we will have to adjust our approach accordingly. In the meantime, it was worth intensifying the pressure on Saddam and making it clear that if the inspectors did not accept, we reserve the right to enter and deal with him. The prime minister also told me that Bush was clear in his desire to build a broad coalition for his Iraq policy. This apparently persuaded him to expel those on the American right who were arguing that there was no need and no point in worrying about the UN inspectors. Perhaps influential on this point was George Bush Sr. Bush separately told the prime minister that the United States should form a coalition to deal with Iraq, whatever "right-wing extremists" say. It is clear from these exchanges that military planning has not progressed much yet.
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