TONY BLAIR ON DARTH CHENEY

William "The Bloody" Kristol wanted an American empire and then-VP Cheney was eager to comply according to Tony Blair:

While Bush was persuaded of the merits of pursuing a further U.N. resolution over Iraq and the benefits of assembling a coalition ahead of an invasion, Blair says former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was "unremittingly hard line."

"He thought that the world had to be made anew, and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency. So he was for hard, hard power," he writes.