10 February 2010

Stephen Walt on Israel & Iraq war

Tony Blair, UK Iraq war commission, about his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002:

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. (lees hele artikel)

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