British general attacks Blair’s ‘Iraq WMD’ lies

This video from the USA says about itself:

Rachel Maddow: Blair admits interest in war independent of WMD.

By Harvey Thompson:

British general’s memoirs hit Blair government on military policy

17 September 2010

The former head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, has made his most strident criticisms to date of the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on the issue of military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in his recently published memoirs.

Dannatt has made the claims and accusations in his book, Leading from the Front, which is being serialised this month in the Sunday Telegraph.

Dannatt said evidence for Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, which was the justification for Britain’s involvement in the illegal US-led 2003 invasion of the country, was “most uncompelling” and the planning for the aftermath of war an “abject failure”.

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