The butterfly effect, as it applies to the biggest failure of British foreign policy since Suez

[peteyoung]

Iraq dossier WMD evidence came from a taxi driver. Worse, not the taxi driver himself but from a conversation he overheard in the back of his cab one day on the Jordanian border.

And I marched through London twice, for this?

Comments

War Talk

[lapswood]

I'm still convinced a conversation like the following took place between G. W. Bush and Tony Blair in 2002:

Phone rings in PM's office...

TB "Hello?"

GWB "Hello Tony"

TB "Hello George."

GWB "We're going into Iraq again."

TB "Oh!

GWB "And I want the Brits to join us again."

TB "Really!"

GWB "Think of any reason you like to get it past your Parliament Guys!"

TB "Errrr!

GWB "Just make sure you cover your tracks Tony ok. Bye!"

Hangs up

Re: War Talk

[peteyoung]

It wasn't on the phone... I think they had almost exactly that discussion in person at Camp David in September 2002, in the meeting Bush described as the cojones meeting.

Re: War Talk

[lapswood]

If only Al Gore won that dodgy vote in Florida in 2000 then all of World history would have been so different.