Attack On Iraq Report example essay topic

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DOWNING STREET DENIES 'ATTACK ON IRAQ' REPORT STONY Blair has denied reports that the US has asked Britain to provide 25,000 troops for a joint attack on Iraq. The Observer says the Government is considering joint plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein ahead of Mr Blair's meeting with US Vice President Dick Cheney. The newspaper did not cite the source of its information. A spokesman for Mr Blair's office said: 'No decisions have been taken, let alone any requests made. ' The Pentagon was not immediately available for comment and the Ministry of Defence has declined to discuss the report. Officials did confirm, however, a report in the Sunday Express that Foreign Office minister Ben Bradshaw has met members of Iraqi opposition groups in London, and will have further such meetings in the coming week.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman described the meetings as 'nothing out of the ordinary.'s peculation that Iraq was the next target of the US-led campaign against terrorism has grown since George W Bush said the country, along with North Korea and Iran, formed an 'axis of evil'. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has denied reports that the Cabinet is split over the UK's strong support of the US in the war against terrorism. He told the BBC: 'There is a lot of press prattle about what went on in Cabinet discussions, absolute nonsense. It is a most united Cabinet. It has concerns, of course it has, but so do the backbenches as well. ' But they had them about Afghanistan where they all thought it would go for an awful long time and there would be many deaths, not true. '.