Bedfellows: Bush's & Blair's Parallel Approaches to Iraq

As Tony Blair faces his final week as England's Prime Minister, a British documentary indicates that Blair sent troops to Iraq despite knowing that the U.S. lacked solid plans for handling post-invasion Iraq.

According to England's Observer, Blair was so concerned about President Bush's poor planning that he repeatedly questioned Bush and sent a top adviser to Washington a year before the invasion. Blair feared the very chaos that has come to pass (Washington Post). 

Instead of airing his concerns in 2003, Blair falsely assured his fellow countrymen that he was comfortable with Bush's "plans" (Observer/Truthout)....

While Blair misled the British people about post-war Iraq, Bush misled the American people about reasons for invading (i.e., WMDs and the debunked Iraq-9/11 link). While Blair ignored his own well-grounded concerns, Bush ignored them too (and also ignored pre-war intelligence reports reflecting Blair's fears).

Given that Bush planned to invade Iraq for at least 15 months beforehand (Washington Post), the Administration had time to devise a post-invasion plan. Apparently, the Administration failed to do so.

And yet, some pundits recently chastised Senator Harry Reid for saying that Administration officials incompetently handled the war.

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