Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

A senior US official said the president needed a dose of reality' to deal with Iraqi insurgents, documents reveal

Tony Blair's advisers privately questioned if the US had proper political control" of military operations in Iraq after a senior US official confided that George W Bush believed he was on a mission from God" against Iraqi insurgents, newly released documents reveal.

Blair needed to deliver some difficult messages" to the then US president for a more measured approach" in April 2004, following a US military operation to suppress a major uprising in the city of Falluja, according to papers released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.