The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell

Author:Alastair Campbell [Campbell, Alastair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Military, Afghan & Iraq Wars, Afghan War, Iraq War, Political, History, United States
Amazon: B005I4D9XS
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Published: 2012-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

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1 Blair told the audience of politicians and business leaders ‘Today, inevitably, I speak against the background of September 11 and the tension here in this subcontinent. But I want to set even these events in a wider context: how Britain and India work together, with others, to confront terrorism; but also how we build support for the policies and values that promote peace and justice and mitigate against extremism and terror, in all nations everywhere.’

2 1993 Hollywood comedy, in which the same day repeats ad nauseam.

3 Donald Rumsfeld has been reported as saying ‘I do not feel even the slightest concern about their treatment. They are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else over the last several years.’

4 ‘The Week in Strategic Context’, a strategic communications note drawn from the Grid, addressed to John Prescott but copied to all ministers.

5 The Blairs had complained to the Press Complaints Commission about reports in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail about Euan Blair applying for a place at Oxford University. The complaint was upheld.

6 A ‘unity’ football match would be played on 15 February at the Afghan national stadium between Kabul Olympic Football Club and troops of the International Security Assistance Force, the latter including players from the UK, Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Germany.

7 Addis, a 94-year-old, had allegedly been neglected in the Whittington Hospital in North London. Her daughter made a complaint to her MP – Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.

8 After telling the audience that each negative media story about the health service was ‘tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper’, Blair said ‘This is the decade when we look to public service professionals as the new byword for can-do innovation and dynamism. For shaking things up and getting things done.’

9 Blair was quoted as saying ‘If the NHS is not basically fixed by the next election, then I am quite happy to suffer the consequences. I am quite willing to be held to account by the voters if we fail.’

10 Allegations that collapsed energy company Enron had offered financial support to Labour in return for a change of policy on gas-fired power stations. The allegations were denied.

11 In what would become known as his ‘axis of evil’ speech, Bush specifically homed in on three nations he claimed were developing weapons of mass destruction.

12 The helicopter was carrying twenty-five British intelligence experts from Belfast to a conference in Fort George, Scotland. A 1995 RAF board of inquiry ruled that the crash was caused by gross negligence, a judgement challenged by families of special forces pilots Jonathan Tapper and Rick Cook.

13 Blair paraphrased a line in The Prince (1532) by Niccolò Machiavelli: ‘Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance.’

14 Blair told delegates ‘Forget the nonsense about privatising public services . . . if we are to win the argument for collective provision, defeat the wreckers and secure the future of our public services, then

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