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January 24, 2010

Gordon Brown Faces the Music on Iraq

Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian

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When Gordon Brown announced the inquiry into the Iraq war, Tony Blair was privately furious with his successor. The former prime minister angrily complained that the media would turn it into a show trial of himself. Show trial it is becoming, but of them both.

 

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