No. 10 dismisses Kelly as a 'Walter Mitty'

[T_i_B]

Now call me what you will but isn't this a change of story by Blair?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=430354

Downing Street will seek to defend itself over the death of David Kelly by portraying the scientist as a Walter Mitty character who exaggerated his role in the Government's intelligence case against Iraq.

Coming shortly before Dr Kelly's funeral on Wednesday, the description of one of Britain's most respected weapons experts as a fantasist is certain to spark fury among friends and former colleagues.

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[roguevalley]

1. Kicking a corpse is the worst thing they can do.

they killed him. Now they want to kill him again. If the
Kelly family had named Blair in their statement to the
world after Kelly died, the government would have fallen.
They said so in the Guardian. Thank god for the Guardian.

Fuck Blair.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Kicking may have been the nicest thing they did to his corpse...

see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=49147&mesg_id=49806&page=

[DannyRed]

2. That

sounds like the death-knell of Tony Blair as a serious figure in British politics.

[otohara]

11. Sounds Like Something Shrub Would Say

Tony, stop acting and sounding like Unelected American Fraud

[bodhisattava]

3. Blair is a lowlife

[0007]

4. Could there be any truth to this charge?

I sure don't see it! But us humans are strange for many different reasons.

[Spentastic]

5. Nope

Dr Kelly was formerly involved in research at Portland Down, top secret weapons facility. It would be odd to charge a fantasist with such work non?

This is simply more Blairite spin. They tried to discredit Gilligan (almost worked) now it's Kelly. As a last resort they'll sacrifice Hoon.

[T_i_B]

10. They are trying to backtrack all of a sudden

Exactly how stupid are these Blairites?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3122779.stm

Downing Street has distanced itself from a report that the government saw weapons expert Dr David Kelly as a "Walter Mitty" character.
Tony Blair's spokesman was commenting on a newspaper report which quoted a "senior Whitehall source" saying Dr Kelly had misled the government and BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan over Iraq's weapons programmes.

Paul Waugh, the Independent's deputy political editor, said he stood by his story.

"I rang a senior person within Downing Street who then was very forthcoming, almost with a pre-prepared line about Walter Mitty," he told BBC Radio 4's the World at One programme.

"I know for a fact, subsequently, I wasn't the only person who was sold this line as a result."

[Dhalgren]

7. How much longer will Britain put up with this piece of shit?

I was hoping that Britain was still controlled by her people and would be able to do the right thing. But I'm beginning to suspect that The Mother Country is no more "free" than her imbecile offspring.

[Spentastic]

8. Bloody Hell

There's insensitive and there is John Prescott.

"On Sunday, Mr Prescott defended Mr Hoon, saying "everyone has to have their holidays"."

[Sinistrous]

9. Blatant psyops.

Margialize / dehumanize your opponent.

In this case, an extremely loathsome and desperate tactic.

[Rex]

12. Wow, they find sticky pads on his chest and now

he goes from being the authority on WMD to a self-inflated quack. Hmmmmmmmm.

[teryang]

13. Well that's one leaker

Mr. Kay won't have to worry about. They dismissed him all right.

[DemBones DemBones]

14. What an outrageous thing to say! I hope all hell breaks loose

over this.

[T_i_B]

16. That seems to be the good news

The spin doctor who smeared Kelly, Mr Blair's official spokesmen Tom Kelly has been exposed as the slanderer in this case. Let's hope he and his masters get their just deserts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/05/nkell05.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/08/05/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=175031

[NYC]

15. Grasping at straws?

This is Bush's system of excuses. If one doesn't seem to be working, make up another one.