Iraq - Inglese

Toppled in Baghdad, clueless in Whitehall

[Times - World]

<b>I</b>n early March 2003, as Britain and America prepared to invade Iraq, a casually dressed Tony Blair unexpectedly walked into the room at 10 Downing Street where Major General Tim Cross had just briefed Alastair Campbell, Blair’s communications chief. Cross was Britain’s point man in Washington on postwar planning and he was not getting a “warm feeling” about it. Campbell was clearly uneasy. For the next half-hour Cross briefed Blair.