Cheney 'waged war' on Blair Iraq strategy

[dArKeR]

Dick Cheney (news - web sites), US vice-president, "waged a guerrilla war" against attempts by Tony Blair (news - web sites), the British prime minister, to secure United Nations (news - web sites) backing for the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites).

Mr Cheney remained implacably opposed to the strategy even after George W. Bush, US president, addressed the UN on the importance of a multilateralist approach, according to a new biography of Mr Blair.


The US vice-president, along with the neo-conservatives in the Bush administration, has consistently argued that the US could be constrained by the UN's inability to reach agreement over the need to invade Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1106&ncid=1106&e=9&u=/ft/20040126/bs_ft/1073281288764

[ixion]

1. see, it's these blatant attempts to derail diplomacy

that should key people in on the true motivations of the * cabal.

There goal from the start has been an invasion of a soverign nation that was no immediate threat to US security, IMO.

[sweetheart]

8. wasn't regime change also clinton policy?

Just not "active" regime change?

[JoblessRecovery]

2. Duh

[MasonJar]

3. A truly evil bunch. n/t

[lostnfound]

4. Cheney really is an imperialist madman, isn't he?? n/t

[ugarte]

5. Cheney, il capo di tutti capi

or Bush's consigliere? Hard to say where one ends and the other begins.

[many a good man]

6. Goes to show

Blair and Powell interfered with the PNAC plot. The neocons WANTED to go it alone to make the point that the US doesn't need to bow down to the UN or anyone else. The half-hearted attempt at diplomacy diluted the point the PNACers wanted to make.

[lostnfound]

7. This story was FRONT PAGE Financial Times yesterday.

I think that's good news for our side.

[T_i_B]

9. Blair should have known better

He should have known he didn't stand a chance of moderating the neo-cons. Blair's poodling adventure is a complete faliure.