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Blair reveals Syria’s fears were well-founded - The National Newspaper
It's going to be very very interesting in the future as more and more information comes out about all of this. Syria and Iran was on Cheney's list, as was Russia after the start of the Georgia war.
DAMASCUS // Syria always feared that the White House of George W Bush and Dick Cheney would invade Damascus once it had dispatched with Baghdad in 2003 and, in his newly released memoirs, the former British prime minister Tony Blair confirmed those fears were well founded.
Describing the former US vice president as an advocate of hard, hard power, Mr Blair said Damascus was next on Mr Cheneys hit list.
He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it Hizbollah, Hamas, etc, Mr Blair wrote in his autobiography, A Journey. In other words, he thought the whole world had to be made anew, and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency.
It's going to be very very interesting in the future as more and more information comes out about all of this. Syria and Iran was on Cheney's list, as was Russia after the start of the Georgia war.