WTF Is It Now?!?

Prove Iraqi guilt, MPs tell Blair
Britain and the US are desperate to uncover a 'smoking gun' to justify the war against Iraq.

With "it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine" playing in his head, Tony 'Piddles' Blair is facing the threat of a rebellion from the Labour party who are growing increasingly alarmed that the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction will confirm that the war was illegal.

As a 1,000-strong Anglo-American task force of inspectors prepares to search hundreds of suspicious sites, Labour MPs are demanding an inquiry to establish whether MI6 misled ministers about Iraq's weapons programme.

Backbench Labour MPs who feel they were duped into backing the war on the basis of questionable intelligence want the cross-party Commons intelligence and security committee to carry out an investigation. One well-placed former minister said: "The intelligence committee is raring to challenge the veracity of what the security services told them about Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. They were told what he had and where it was. There may be a perfectly innocent explanation for all this, but they don't seem to be able to find the stuff."

The doubts about Iraq's WMD program mean that some Labour MPs will be sceptical even if a 'smoking gun' is uncovered. David Hinchliffe, chairman of the Commons health committee, said there was a "cynical view" among Labour MPs that the coalition inspectors will doctor the evidence. - link.