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Report: Blair Committed to War in Iraq in July 2002

HeadlineMay 04, 2005

On Sunday the London Times revealed that it had obtained the minutes to a secret meeting that proves Blair had privately committed by July 2002 to wage war with Iraq. A secret briefing for the meeting said Britain and the U.S. had to “create” conditions to justify a war. Earlier during the campaign it was revealed that Blair’s own attorney general questioned the legality of the invasion.

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