The Metropolis

Blair verifies Cheney's domino effect for the Middle East

Darren Atwater | Monday 6 September, 2010 14:16

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Remember the nutcases who believed that the war on Iraq was merely a pretext for a wholesale regime change in the region? Tony Blair, in his new book, says former US vice-president Dick Cheney wanted nothing less. [Cheney] thought the world had to be made anew and … it had to be done by force and with urgency. … He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. Oops.

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