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Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's "deal in blood" with Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion started

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The damning memo, from Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas. In it, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action. Powell assures the President: "The UK will follow our lead." A second explosive memo from the same cache also reveals how Bush used ‘spies’ in the Labour Party to help him manipulate British public opinion in favor of the war.
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