BLAIR SAYS ISRAELI OFFICIALS WERE PART OF DECSION TO INVADE IRAQ

**British Prime Minister: Israeli officials were part of decision to invade Iraq <http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58012>* 20 Feb 2010 In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003. During testimony regarding his meetings in Texas with then-US President [sic] George W. Bush in 2002, Blair stated, “As I recall that discussion, it was less to do with specifics about what we were going to do on Iraq or, indeed, the Middle East, because the Israel issue was a big, big issue at the time. I think, in fact, I remember, actually, there may have been conversations that we had even with Israelis, the two of us, whilst we were there. So that was a major part of all this.”

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