“Right Wing” Murdoch Asked Blair To Speed Up Iraq War

Stephen: Now the real truths start to tumble… Under pressure from US Republicans, a “very right-wing” Rupert Murdoch asked former British PM Tony Blair to accelerate Britain’s involvement in the Iraqi War.

Eh? I thought he said he had “never asked a British prime Minister for anything”.  Yet here it is, tabled in evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, that he was war-mongering.

So, a media mogul was instructing a nation’s leader to ‘go to war’? Deplorable. And yet I’m not surprised to hear this. In fact, I’m relieved. It’s now out in ‘the open’ for all to hear -  and I’m very ready for more truths to be exposed. I can handle it; as I expect – deep down – you can, too.

(FYI – Alastair Campbell was Blair’s Director of Communications and Strategy.)

Rupert Murdoch pressured Tony Blair over Iraq, says Alastair Campbell

By Nicholas Watt, The Guardian – June 15, 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/15/rupert-murdoch-tony-blair-i…

Rupert Murdoch joined in an “over-crude” attempt by US Republicans to force Tony Blair to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war a week before a crucial House of Commons vote in 2003, according to the final volumes of Alastair Campbell’s government diaries.

In another blow to the media mogul, who told the Leveson inquiry that he had never tried to influence any prime minister, Campbell’s diary says Murdoch warned Blair in a phone call of the dangers of a delay in Iraq.