No 10 blocks envoy's book on Iraq
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1530360,00.html
Martin Bright and Peter Beaumont
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Observer
A controversial fly-on-the wall account of the Iraq war by one of
Britain's most senior former diplomats has been blocked by Downing
Street and the Foreign Office.
Publication of The Costs of War by Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK ambassador
to the UN during the build-up to the 2003 war and the Prime Minister's
special envoy to Iraq in its aftermath, has been halted. In an extract
seen by The Observer, Greenstock describes the American decision to go
to war as 'politically illegitimate' and says that UN negotiations
'never rose over the level of awkward diversion for the US
administration'. Although he admits that 'honourable decisions' were
made to remove the threat of Saddam, the opportunities of the
post-conflict period were 'dissipated in poor policy analysis and
narrow-minded execution'.
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