Blair 'warned Bush over Iraq war'
Updated on 18 January 2010
Tony Blair wrote to US president George Bush 11 months before the invasion of Iraq warning him of the need to "move quickly" if it came to military action, the official inquiry into the war has been told.
Jonathan Powell, who was the No 10 chief of staff, said that in a note to Mr Bush following their meeting at the president's Texas ranch at Crawford in April 2002 the prime minister had warned of the need to be prepared if things became "militarily tricky".
However, he strongly denied that Mr Blair had given an "undertaking signed in blood" that if it came to war Britain would be there with the Americans.
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