That is the accusation made by former UK ambassador to the US. Despite all of that brain power, Blair can't resist raw power and he crumbled to the every whim of an otherwise weak US president. There is no way Bush would have invaded Iraq had it not been for Blair tagging a long with the entire program. Instead of going along with the entire plan, not that there was much of a plan, Blair could have added some reason to the half baked ideas of the neocons but instead he earned his reputation as Bush's little poodle.
Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador in Washington who was heavily involved in the pre-war planning, said Blair was reluctant to negotiate conditions with President George W. Bush over Britain's support for war.
"Britain should have made its participation in any war dependent on a fully worked-out plan, agreed by both sides, for the rehabilitation of Iraq after Saddam's demise," Meyer wrote in memoirs serialized in two British newspapers on Monday.
"Had Britain insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise," he wrote.
