Tony Blair: Downing Street Memos Paint Distorted Picture

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the “Downing Street memos” paint a distorted picture, and he insisted that the Iraq war was not predetermined by the United States:

“People say the decision was already taken. The decision was not already taken,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

Blair added he was “a bit astonished” at the intensive U.S. media coverage about the leaked memos, which suggested the White House viewed the war with Iraq as inevitable.

End of story regarding the Downing Street memos!