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06-16-2012, 01:38 AM
Campbell: Murdoch asked Blair to speed up Iraq war
Murdoch joined an 'over-crude' attempt by US to accelerate British involvement, former spin doctor says
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Rupert Murdoch joined in an "over-crude" attempt by US Republicans to force Tony Blair to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war a week before a crucial House of Commons vote in 2003, according to the final volumes of Alastair Campbell's government diaries.
In another blow to the media mogul, who told the Leveson inquiry that he had never tried to influence any prime minister, Campbell's diary says Murdoch warned Blair in a phone call of the dangers of a delay in Iraq. The disclosure by Campbell, whose diaries are serialised in the Guardian, will pile the pressure on Murdoch in light of his evidence to the Leveson inquiry.
Campbell wrote that on 11 March 2003, a week before the Commons vote in which MPs voted to deploy British troops to Iraq, Murdoch intervened to try to persuade Blair to move more quickly towards war. "[Tony Blair] took a call from Murdoch who was pressing on timings, saying how News International would support us, etc," Campbell wrote. "Both TB and I felt it was prompted by Washington, and another example of their over-crude diplomacy. Murdoch was pushing all the Republican buttons, how the longer we waited the harder it got."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/15/rupert-murdoch-tony-blair-iraq-alastair-campbell
*So we're told that a Zionist grandee pressured Tony Blair to invade Iraq at the behest of Zionists in Washington- which he did. It would be quite funny to watch these incestuous political criminals roger each other - except that they caused the deaths of a million people, left four million people homeless and ravaged an entire country. 5,000 American service personnel are dead. Another 76,000 are crippled . No Republicans have been prosecuted, Murdoch still lives off the fat of his billions and Tony Blair is........a peace envoy. *There were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Saddam had no connections to al-Qaeda.* *
How the FBI investigation of Murdoch coming along ? Hampered by Republicans, is it ?
Murdoch joined an 'over-crude' attempt by US to accelerate British involvement, former spin doctor says
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/15/1339781329646/Rupert-Murdoch-and-Tony-B-008.jpg
Rupert Murdoch joined in an "over-crude" attempt by US Republicans to force Tony Blair to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war a week before a crucial House of Commons vote in 2003, according to the final volumes of Alastair Campbell's government diaries.
In another blow to the media mogul, who told the Leveson inquiry that he had never tried to influence any prime minister, Campbell's diary says Murdoch warned Blair in a phone call of the dangers of a delay in Iraq. The disclosure by Campbell, whose diaries are serialised in the Guardian, will pile the pressure on Murdoch in light of his evidence to the Leveson inquiry.
Campbell wrote that on 11 March 2003, a week before the Commons vote in which MPs voted to deploy British troops to Iraq, Murdoch intervened to try to persuade Blair to move more quickly towards war. "[Tony Blair] took a call from Murdoch who was pressing on timings, saying how News International would support us, etc," Campbell wrote. "Both TB and I felt it was prompted by Washington, and another example of their over-crude diplomacy. Murdoch was pushing all the Republican buttons, how the longer we waited the harder it got."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/15/rupert-murdoch-tony-blair-iraq-alastair-campbell
*So we're told that a Zionist grandee pressured Tony Blair to invade Iraq at the behest of Zionists in Washington- which he did. It would be quite funny to watch these incestuous political criminals roger each other - except that they caused the deaths of a million people, left four million people homeless and ravaged an entire country. 5,000 American service personnel are dead. Another 76,000 are crippled . No Republicans have been prosecuted, Murdoch still lives off the fat of his billions and Tony Blair is........a peace envoy. *There were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Saddam had no connections to al-Qaeda.* *
How the FBI investigation of Murdoch coming along ? Hampered by Republicans, is it ?