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Furor over Iraqi weapons dogs WH poodle
Bush lapdog gets the high hard one from his American "ally" Tony 'Piddles' Blair's efforts to quietly ride out the uproar over Iraq's lack of weapons hit another roadblock today when a former intelligence official tore apart the British government's case for war.
One day after the prime minister set up an inquiry into apparent intelligence failings over Iraq, weapons expert Brian Jones said the government had overruled intelligence analysts to present a "misleading" pre-war dossier on Iraq's banned armaments.
The comments by Jones, a former Ministry of Defense expert on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, poured more fuel on the raging debate over Iraq, which showed no sign of abating despite Blair's announcement on Tuesday of an independent probe.
Blair's critics said Jones' remarks raised further doubts over the justification he gave for war and over the conclusions of a senior judge who last week exonerated Blair of exaggerating the threat from Iraq.
Blair emerged whiter-than-white from judge Lord Hutton's inquiry into last July's suicide of scientist David Kelly, who killed himself after being outed as the source of a BBC report that claimed Blair had "sexed up" evidence of Iraq's weapons. Blair may have hoped that, after Hutton, his inquiry into Iraq intelligence would have finally silenced his critics.
But large parts of the media and the public branded Hutton's report a "whitewash."
The comments by Jones, a former Ministry of Defense expert on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, poured more fuel on the raging debate over Iraq, which showed no sign of abating despite Blair's announcement on Tuesday of an independent probe.
Blair's critics said Jones' remarks raised further doubts over the justification he gave for war and over the conclusions of a senior judge who last week exonerated Blair of exaggerating the threat from Iraq.
Blair emerged whiter-than-white from judge Lord Hutton's inquiry into last July's suicide of scientist David Kelly, who killed himself after being outed as the source of a BBC report that claimed Blair had "sexed up" evidence of Iraq's weapons. Blair may have hoped that, after Hutton, his inquiry into Iraq intelligence would have finally silenced his critics.
But large parts of the media and the public branded Hutton's report a "whitewash."
This just in: a debate in Commons on the Hutton Report was suspended today after Piddles' opening speech was interrupted by protests from the public gallery. Several demonstrators were ejected amid shouts of "whitewash" and "no more illegal war" as Mr Blair took to the podium.
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