The Blind Prophet

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Great Guardian article re Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1034488,00.html

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The warning was plain. Iraq was a breeding ground of terror, an incubator for al-Qaida and a clear and present danger to "the civilised world". Tony Blair was wary of that argument, but George Bush made it the heart of his case. At his eve-of-war press conference back in March, the president cast the coming attack as the next step in a story that had begun on September 11 2001. Iraq was providing "training and safe haven to terrorists, terrorists who would willingly use weapons of mass destruction against America and other peace-loving countries". The irony is that, at the time, this was not true. But it is now

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1. Thanks for posting

Freedland is probbably the best colummist in Fleet Street at present IMHO and I agree with him wholeheartledly, from the proliferation of terrorism in Iraq to the need to get the UN in this article well and truly nails it!

It also begs the question of why Bush is not in more trouble with the American public. It is not just Blair who lied on this front.