Ex-senior public servant blasts Blair over Iraq war

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091214/wl_uk_afp/britainiraqpoliticsinquirymilitaryblair

One of Tony Blair's most senior public servants launched a scathing attack Monday on the former prime minister over the Iraq war, accusing him of "sycophancy" towards Washington.

The former top prosecutor Ken Macdonald issued the attack after Blair admitted on the weekend that the country would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction.

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Blair's comments to the BBC sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes, while one commentator said it was a "game-changing admission" for Britain's ongoing official inquiry into the war.

Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, writing in The Times newspaper, accused Blair and using "alarming subterfuge" to mislead the British people into the conflict.

"This was a foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions and playing footsie on Sunday morning television does nothing to repair the damage."


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