Tony Blair’s ’sycophancy’ led us into war with Iraq, says former DPP
By Duncan Gardham , Security Correspondent Published: 7:05AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The former Prime Minister engaged in an “alarming subterfuge” with George Bush, and then misled the British people into a war they did not want, Sir Ken said. In an article for The Times he argues that the Chilcot Inquiry should be held in “deserved and withering contempt” if it ends in a “whitewash” by failing to disclose details of a “foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions”. He also called Mr Blair’s belief that he did what he thought was right a “narcissist’s defence”, adding: “Washington turned his head and he couldn’t resist the stage or the glamour that it gave him.” Sir Ken, who was appointed in 2003 under the Blair government, added that the war was the result of a “Prime Minister lost in self-aggrandisement and a governing class too closed to speak truth to power.” His comments come as a senior minister has accepted that Tony Blair could have lost the crucial House of Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had told MPs he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether he had weapons of mass destruction.
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Tony Blair’s ’sycophancy’ led us into war with Iraq, says former DPP
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