Blair defends sending infamous Iraq war note to George Bush

Sir Tony Blair has told a new documentary that he stands by his infamous note to George W Bush which said: 'I will be with you, whatever.'The memo, first declassified in 2016, confirmed Sir Tony had committed himself in writing to backing the then-US president eight months before the Iraq invasion.Sir Tony wrote to Mr Bush in July 2002 that 'getting rid of Saddam is the right thing to do' after a crunch meeting at the American's ranch in Crawford, Texas, that April.Now, Sir Tony has told a Channel 4 programme that he was trying to 'rally the world' at the time of the note, well before Parliament approved military action in March 2003.