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Mephisto
8th October 2006, 07:31 PM
We should have listened, but nooooooo!


U.K. tried to curb U.S. on Iraq, ex-minister says
Blunkett: Britain was incapable of stopping war plans by Cheney, Rumsfeld

Updated: 10:37 a.m. MT Oct 7, 2006

The British government tried to rein in U.S. policy in Iraq from the outset of the March 2003 invasion but found itself powerless to do so, a former cabinet minister was quoted on Saturday as saying.

David Blunkett, Home Secretary at the time of the invasion, told newspapers that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could not be diverted from their goal of dismantling the Iraqi Baathist government system.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15166761/

Whoracle
8th October 2006, 07:42 PM
They aren't there to listen to, they are there to be told what to do.

Zep
8th October 2006, 09:10 PM
So's Bush, for that matter.

peptoabysmal
8th October 2006, 10:49 PM
Blunkett quits after 'mistakes' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4398004.stm)
Oh that David Blunkett. Yeah, I'd listen to him if I were you. :p

shecky
8th October 2006, 11:14 PM
What good are allies if you don't listen to them?

Cannon fodder!