Blair 'had early Iraq war tip-off'

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Tony Blair was warned by a top diplomat to prepare for war in Iraq almost two months before the US-led invasion was finally launched, MPs heard.

Britain's former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer said "the die was cast for war" before the Prime Minister met President Bush on January 31.

"By the time that Tony Blair came to the meeting I was saying that, absent of a coup in Iraq or Saddam suddenly deciding to go off into exile to some inhospitable place like Minsk, the die was cast for war," he told the foreign affairs committee.

"And therefore the Prime Minister's main objective from that meeting should be that in time of war we went into battle in the best company possible which was another way of saying 'let's get a second resolution'".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=383555

[FloridaPat]

1. Right. Blair had no idea * wanted to invade Iraq for years. I knew

that. But the prime minister of Britian - who backed * every step of the way - didn't? Sure!