>>I just don't understand what happened with Blair and Iraq. I know his strategy was to cosy up to the US to be the bridge to Europe for all things economic, political... I don't know if he mistakenly believed the false intel coming out of the US or what.
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>I'd bet one thing - that he ASSUMED it would be a war executed according to the Powell Doctrine.
>Instead he got a Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz "on the cheap". That left an opportunity for chaos and chaos grabs every chance it can get.
I've heard of the Powell Doctrine, but never new it was actually something that was written down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_DoctrineI think Blair assumed that the US would acquire UN approval as well.
