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Ex-UK envoy: US focused on Iraq hours after 9/11
Quick ReadFormer British ambassador says Tony Blair was too timid to change course of Iraq war
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LONDON (AP) — Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington said Thursday.
Christopher Meyer, Blair's U.S. envoy from 1997-2003, told a panel investigating the Iraq war that Blair failed to use his influence with Bush to...
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