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Katharine Gun: the spy who tried to stop the Iraq war

14 September 2019

9:00 AM

14 September 2019

9:00 AM

In his memoir of office, Decision Points, George W. Bush writes about going to see Tony Blair in the Azores in the last days before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was a crisis meeting because they had failed to get a second UN resolution, to give legal cover for the war.

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