Britain: Parliamentary probe exposes lies on Iraqi weapons

[dave502d]

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee investigation into whether Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour government distorted intelligence material to justify its planned war against Iraq is to publish its verdict on July 8. There is every reason to suppose that the Labour-dominated committee in Parliament will make criticisms of the government that stop short of accusing it of lying—a classic fudge. But some of the testimony given to the inquiry makes this difficult. It stands as a damning indictment of the way the government set out to sell a previously determined decision to go to war by claiming that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. In order that this information does not remain buried amidst thousands of pages of undigested transcripts, the World Socialist Web Site is publishing a précis of the most important testimony given.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jul2003/wmd1-j03.shtml

[LightningFlash]

1. Indict Tony Blair's entire team.

And throw Tony Blair in jail, then lets import him to the USA to give official testimony. :mad:

[Stockholm]

3. import?

Rendition his ass and send him to Egypt for questioning.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. This report was overtaken by events

Gilligan had given evidence to them, but, by the time the report was published, David Kelly's name had not been made public. When it was, they took evidence from him separately (in which he said he didn't think he was Gilligan's primary source, playing down what he had said to Gilligan), but Kelly's suicide a few days later eclipsed it all.

To be honest, the evidence given to the Hutton Inquiry was more damning. See http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/ .