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UK Official: Blair Lied to Public About Iraq WMD
File this one away with the Downing Street Memo. From The Indepenent:
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, "at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests."
Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been "effectively contained"....
Mr Ross says he questioned colleagues at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence working on Iraq and none said that any new evidence had emerged to change their assessment.
"What had changed was the Government's determination to present available evidence in a different light," he added.
Comments (4)
George of the Jungle wrote on December 16, 2006 12:49 AM:This is why both Blair and Bush must be somehow brought up against the Hague Criminal Court of Justice for War Crimes. They both lied, and continue to lie, about the supposed WMD. And in the meantime a sovreign country has been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have lost their lives (genocide crimes by Blair and Bush), and many rich US Corporations have stolen billions of dollars from the US people under the guise of rebuilding Iraq. No, Blair must somehow by someone be charged as the criminal that he is.
And then he should be castrated and shot - in public. Nothing less.
karen marie wrote on December 17, 2006 8:15 PM:tick tick tick ... what's that silence? that's the sound of the media completely ignoring this information. oh, that's right -- sorry -- the past is irrelevant. i forgot.
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