Blair misled British public

NICE try, AW (letters, May 3). Blair was misled over Iraq? You cannot be serious...that’s Boris’s excuse for Partygate. And in both cases it’s equally gratuitous. Treating us as fools.

Blair assured the Americans that he was up for war months ahead of any cosmetic rubber-stamp parliamentary decision-making.

He chose not to listen to Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector. And he was quite oblivious to the fact that the UN as a whole withheld support for the planned invasion, making it illegal.

When he received equivocal advice from our own security services he sent it back for ‘sexingup’. He needed something more convincing. Twisted a few arms and got his way.

By now the propaganda operation was in full swing and when the BBC started reporting the truth about what was going on he had them firmly in his sights.

Not only did a troublesome journalist lose his job, but Greg Dyke, well-respected leader of the organisation, was removed from post and replaced by a cipher.

The argument about who’s

misleading who is an open-andshut case. Blair took the lead on Iraq against overwhelming advice at home and across the world. He constructed a feeble, broad-brush case for war from disconnected anecdotal threads.

He misled the British public.

John Hodgkins, Seaton Sluice