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RubberDuck@lemmy.world to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 4 months ago

Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

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Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

www.theguardian.com

RubberDuck@lemmy.world to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 4 months ago
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A senior US official said the president needed a ‘dose of reality’ to deal with Iraqi insurgents, documents reveal
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    They should have asked someone who wasn’t also deluded. Blair prayed to god over Iraq, and said that god made the decision to go to war as well as him.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4772142.stm

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    Lesson learned, surely the Americans won’t elect a complete nutjob ever again after this?

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      And us, can we with any certainty claim the same?

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    A bit late on the advice, don’t you think?

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    Blair is also a power/money hungry Bible thumper.

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      Just to be clear, he was (and is) a sanctimonious twat, but he’s not a fundie (which is what Bible-thumper generally connotes), he converted to Catholicism. His obnoxious wife Cherie is a life-long Catholic.

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