Bwwaaaahahahahahaha..................what a subject title, the poodle handling the bush ;c} {that famous brit dry humor}
Diplomat questions Blair's handling of Bush in runup to Iraq war
30 June 2010 Lord Jay tells Chilcot inquiry Tony Blair gave commitments to US president about British involvement
Tony Blair gave certain commitments to George Bush in the runup to the 2003 Iraq war, according to Britain's senior diplomat at the time. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
Britain's senior diplomat at the time of the Iraq war has questioned how Tony Blair conducted his dealings with the then US president, George W Bush, in the runup to the conflict, during this morning's session at the Chilcot inquiry in central London.
Lord Jay of Ewelme, who was head of the Foreign Office as permanent secretary there between 2002 and 2006, told the inquiry that the former prime minister gave commitments about Britain's support for the war in advance that he would not have given himself.
His evidence also disclosed that there was internal debate and conflict within the Foreign Office about the legality of the war and that its senior legal advisers were strongly opposed to the conflict without a second UN resolution. He said there was a "difficult relationship" between the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and the Foreign Office's chief lawyer, Michael Wood, over the advice he gave.
Jay also spoke of how he had to fight with the Treasury to obtain extra funding to pay for protective clothing for diplomats in Iraq following the war. Only volunteers were picked to go to Baghdad and they found themselves living in containers in an underground carpark. Continued
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