President Bush greets British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
LONDON (AFP) - Britain joined the United States' invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke" Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.
In comments printed in advance in the Daily Mirror tabloid on Monday, Christopher Meyer said that fear explained why Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to stand with US President George W. Bush in his decision to invade Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- to temper his aggressive battle plans.
"Blair's real concern was that there would be quote unquote 'a knee-jerk reaction' by the Americans ... they would go thundering off and nuke... the place without thinking straight," Meyer reported told the documentary, according to the Mirror.
Incurious George Goes To War. With a chaperon!
Will the People of the Great United States ever live down the shame of the Chaos Monkey?
Instead of bombing the shit out of them, we just poke them with a stick until they die writhing in despair.
Posted by: Peacechick Mary | June 20, 2007 at 08:07 AM
Ten or twenty years from now, when he's being convicted of crimes against humanity, the only possible excuse I can imagine him giving is that he didn't do anything. As in "You can't say I didn't do my job right, because I never did it in the first place."
Posted by: Laurel | June 24, 2007 at 03:57 PM