Bad Blood

• Joshua Rozenberg, The Iraq war inquiry has left the door open for Tony Blair to be prosecuted, The Guardian, July 6, 2016

Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry says UK chose to join invasion before peaceful options for disarming Saddam had been exhausted. Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images.

• Robert Booth, “With you, whatever”: Tony Blair’s letters to George W. Bush, The Guardian, July 6, 2016

Tony Blair and George W. Bush arrive at the Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas on April 5, 2002. Photo: Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images.

Wanted: Dead or Alive

If anybody still seriously doubted that Tony Blair assured George W. Bush, up to a year before the war began, that Britain’s Labour government would support a U.S. invasion of Iraq, then the March 2002 internal memo from Colin Powell published on Sunday should finally lay such doubts to rest. [Read more].

• Simon Tisdall, There is no doubt about it: Tony Blair was on the warpath from early 2002, The Guardian, October 18, 2015

• Glen Owen and William Lowther, Smoking gun emails reveal Blair’s “deal in blood” with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started, Daily Mail Online, October 17, 2015

Tony Blair and George W. Bush meet at Camp David in Maryland in September 2002. Photo: Getty Images.