‘I will be with you, whatever’ – Tony Blair Assured George Bush

Tony Blair wrote to George W Bush eight months before the Iraq invasion to offer his unqualified backing for war well before UN weapons inspectors had completed their work, saying: “I will be with you, whatever.”
In a six-page memo marked secret and personal, the then British prime minister told Bush in July 2002 that the removal of Saddam Hussein would “free up the region” even if Iraqis may “feel ambivalent about being invaded” and could well fight back.
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