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Geoff Hoon, Minister of Defense in the government of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, revealed that the latter had ordered the burning of a secret memorandum that revealed that the US-British invasion of Iraq in 2003 was "illegal" and that Blair had deliberately lied about the threat posed by Iraq to justify Britain's involvement and involvement with the United States in that invasion.
The British Daily Mail newspaper published excerpts from Hoon's memoirs, in which he said that "after revealing the content of the aforementioned document, Blair ordered it to be burned, but the Ministry of Defense defied the Prime Minister's decision at the time by depositing the note in a safe instead of burning it."
The document says that Blair signed a "blood deal" with former US President George Bush Jr. to support and justify the war on Iraq, a year before its outbreak. a threat to Britain.
Hoon expressed his shock when asked to destroy and burn a secret recommendation from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on the legality of the invasion of Iraq in the period leading up to the invasion. The document reveals that Goldsmith asserted that "the war is illegal."
In 2015, Hoon made similar statements about British participation in the invasion of Iraq, describing them at the time as "nonsense", but Hoon, who was responsible for the defense at the time, insists that what he said is true and substantiated by documents, and presented in his diaries an exciting account of the note that was hidden.
These scandals came to reinforce a campaign demanding that Tony Blair, who served as prime minister from 1997 to 2007, be stripped of the equestrian title, at a time when about 600,000 people approached the signing of a petition demanding the withdrawal of Blair's knighthood, the oldest medal in Britain.
Hoon adds that Blair misled ministers, parliament and the British people into supporting a war that many considered illegal and a crime against humanity.
Blair denied this claim and said he sought a diplomatic solution, but the leaked White House memos showed that then US Secretary of State Colin Powell assured President Bush a week before a summit in 2002, a year before the invasion, that "Blair will be with us."
And the leaked documents from the mail of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed that President Bush used spies from the British Labor Party to help him deal with British public opinion in favor of the invasion of Iraq and justify it, while former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused the United States of “implicating the British government by deception” in Participation in the invasion of Iraq and that the Pentagon was aware that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction and did not inform London of that.
It is noteworthy that the US-British invasion of Iraq in March 2003 came under false allegations such as the possession of weapons of mass destruction by this country, which was proven incorrect by conclusive evidence following tragedies revealed by American or close circles before they were revealed by official and unofficial circles and documents leaked to dozens of websites scattered around the world The most famous of them are the WikiLeaks documents, which confirmed that the US forces were keeping documentation of the dead and wounded Iraqis, despite their public denial. Documentation of 285,000 victims, including at least 109 thousand dead, was revealed. The documents also showed that nearly 63 percent of the dead were civilians.
Amer Dawa
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