Tony Blair will step down in just a matter of days or weeks.  One can't help but wonder that being labeled "Bush's Poodle" and being complicit in one of the greatest military/political blunders in history played a major role in his demise. New documents are referenced by former British intelligence expert, Carne Ross in this:   Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war

No, this isn't about Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel. This is a story about a diplomat who realized what he was doing for the British government was morally wrong and that he needed to make a change. Carne Ross was a man who negotiated deals for Great Britain for over 15 years and realized that he could do more with his life. He went from a promising career by holding the status quo and then did everything he could to fight it. He spoke against the war and how intelligence was used to bring this 'war' about. He thoroughly debunked the WMD claims as a man on the inside.

Ross has been ostracized by his former employers in London for doing the 'right thing.' Instead of being a diplomat for one of five nations on the UN Security Council, he sits at the table for the voiceless, for the countries that have had little chance at negotiating favorable deals on the world stage and for people that don't even have a nation-state to call their own.

Crossposted at Joshing Politics

Today the previously secret testimony to the Butler inquiry of Mr Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN in the period leading up to the Iraq debacle, was made public by a UK Commons Select Committee. Mr. Ross had previously been threatened by the government with prosecution under the official secrets act if he publicly disclosed his testimony........AND the testimony was definitely worthy of suppression.

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The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

 

On Wednesday the former British ambassador First Secretary to the U.N., Carne Ross, made to a Committee of Parliament some pretty stiff allegations against Tony Blair and George Bush regarding their plans to drag the U.K. and U.S. to war in Iraq. Ross resigned his position in protest over the Iraq war nearly two years ago.

Though he has made certain charges in the past about the rush to war, and Blair's eager embrace of Bush's war mongering, until now Ross has cooperated with the British government in keeping the documentary evidence from the public. He's had to, since he could be charged under the Official Secrets Act if he reveals it.

But now Ross says he's decided the public has to see the evidence. It is evidence, he implies, that the Butler Inquiry ignored when it reported that the Blair government did not manipulate the pre-war intelligence on WMD.