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Memo “Shows Blair Iraq War Deal With Bush”

Elfyn Llwyd

A Welsh barrister and member of the UK Parliament claims he has a “smoking gun” memo showing British Prime Minister Tony Blair struck a secret deal with US President George W. Bush to invade Iraq before 2003.

Elfyn Llwyd, leader of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru, told the BBC’s Straight Talk news program that the document, marked “Top Secret and Confidential,” contradicts testimony Blair made to the Chilcot Inquiry, which is investigating Britain’s role in the build-up to the Iraq War.

Blair testified earlier last week that he made no “covert” deal with the Americans, including former President Bush, about the Iraq War.

Llwyd said the contents of the memo were “in direct contradiction of many, many statements by the ex-prime minister in the House of Commons, including several questions he answered to me” and is willing to hand the document over to Sir John Chilcot, who is leading the Inquiry.

Blair: No "covert" deals made

Witnesses to the Chilcot inquiry have suggested Mr Blair told Mr Bush at their April 2002 meeting at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, that the UK would join the Americans in a war with Iraq.

But when he appeared before the committee last week, Mr Blair said there had never been any secret about what the two men discussed in private – that Saddam Hussein had to be dealt with and “the method of doing that is open”.

He told the panel: “What I was saying – I was not saying this privately incidentally, I was saying it in public – was ‘we are going to be with you in confronting and dealing with this threat’.

“The one thing I was not doing was dissembling in that position. How we proceed in this is a matter that was open. The position was not a covert position, it was an open position.”

Pressed on what he thought Mr Bush took from the meeting, he went further, saying: “I think what he took from that was exactly what he should have taken, which was if it came to military action because there was no way of dealing with this diplomatically, we would be with him.”