In January 2003 – two months before US and UK forces launched their fateful invasion – the-then Prime Minister Blair to flew to Camp David to urge the US President to allow more time for diplomacy to work.
In a cable sent to the prime minister’s office in December 2002, Sir Christopher said that much of the impulse for deposing Hussein was coming from the president, a born-again Christian, who was scornful of what he saw as the “self-serving” reservations of the Europeans.
“His view of the world is Manichean. He sees his mission as ridding it of evildoers. He believes American values should be universal values.
“Anyone who has sat round a dinner table with low-church Southerners will find these sentiments instantly recognisable.”
‘Much of the impulse for deposing Saddam Hussein comes from Bush himself’ Sir Christopher wrote (Photo Handout via Reuters)Blair’s foreign policy adviser, Sir David Manning, said that when he met the president he should make the point that a new resolution was “politically essential for the UK, and almost certainly legally essential as well”.
Following Bush’s annual State of the Union address to Congress, shortly before Blair’s visit, he warned that the options for a peaceful solution had effectively run out.
“If Bush had any room for manoeuvre beforehand this was closed off by his State of the Union speech.
In the event, the US and UK abandoned their efforts to get agreement on a new Security Council resolution, claiming French president Jacques Chirac had made it clear he would never agree.
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