Blair "disingenuous" about Iraq WMDs - Lord Butler

[wendigo100]

BBC

In the UK House of Lords last month, Lord Butler, who headed an investigation into the intelligence which took Britain into the war, accused Tony Blair of being "disingenuous" in the way he used intelligence - Whitehall-speak for "deliberately misleading".

"Mr Blair told Parliament... that the picture painted by our intelligence services was 'extensive, detailed and authoritative'. Those words could simply not have been justified by the material that the intelligence community provided to him."

It has emerged that MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, was up-front about its lack of first-class intelligence about Iraq. It told Tony Blair it hadn't known much about Iraq's work on chemical and biological weapons since 1988. In fact, at some stage in the 1990s, Saddam got rid of most of his weapons of mass destruction

But it was the discreet unquestioning support from Whitehall which meant the government was able to massage the intelligence in order to bolster its case.

In other words, Butler accuses Blair of deliberately lying.

Surely not?

[xoggoth]

Yeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bottom of page, nought comments. Super noble xoggoth to the rescue again!!!

[xoggoth]

You do realise this is the ULTIMATE humiliation?

[The Farmer]

We all knew this anyway!!

Nobody used to listen to me when I said Blair was disingenuous.

Lord Butler must be more credible than me.

Hey-ho

[AlfredJPruffock]

Lord Butler is nothing but a Saddamist anti-democratic terrorist - try telling your socialist rants to all the Iranian women whose husbands were murdered by Saddam - so called Lord Butler.

[Churchill]

Lord Butler is nothing but a Saddamist anti-democratic terrorist - try telling your socialist rants to all the Iranian women whose husbands were murdered by Saddam - so called Lord Butler.

AlfredJPruffock is nothing but a pro-iranian terrorist - try telling your socialist rants to all the Iraqi women whose husbands were murdered by the iranians - so called AlfredJPruffock.

[The Farmer]

Lord Butler is nothing but a Saddamist anti-democratic terrorist - try telling your socialist rants to all the Iranian women whose husbands were murdered by Saddam - so called Lord Butler.

Not sure what your point is.

Have you run out of poems??

[wonderwaif]

Not sure what your point is.

Have you run out of poems??

Here's one:

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,

laid my proposition down, laid it on the line-

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels,

but I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.



Ship of fools on a cruel sea,

ship of fools sail away from me.

It was later than I thought when I first believed you,

now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

[Bagpuss]

You couldn't make this up, John Bolton, one of the biggest hawks in the Bush Government was on Newsnight last night. He blaimed the WMD shambles on Blair, he reckoned the US only thought he had the scientific intelectual ability to acquire them . Where is Mailman/Shaunbhoy when you need him?

[Ruprect]

You couldn't make this up, John Bolton, one of the biggest hawks in the Bush Government was on Newsnight last night. He blaimed the WMD shambles on Blair, he reckoned the US only thought he had the scientific intelectual ability to acquire them . Where is Mailman/Shaunbhoy when you need him?

Does anyone believe what that idiot has to say? It seems like all the neocon hawks are taking a stroll down slippery shoulder street on their way to scapegoat city... holes