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The The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=4091219

Granted this is just a low level think tank but it may be a preview of things to come in the Hutton report and any resulting enquiries.

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I can't wait for it to be released.

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Much as we would hope for the truth to come out, I doubt it. The Hutton enquiry is solely concerned with Dr Kelly's death; anything else is peripheral.

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Looks like the BBC has caught up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3380645.stm

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Further proof that phony bliar misled us. :rolleyes:

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Ah but he'll use word games to try and get out of having to resign

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is that short for bluddy liar ?? ;)

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i was always semi against the war, i didnt take sides, but something did not seem right, i saw all this 'they have WMD' but i never saw clear evidence that to me did not seem right.

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Here's another opinion:
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player...Points&ram-300

I can see that he is trying to be fair. But to me, this seems like one hell of a mistake.

WMD or no WMD, if they weren't sure they made a lot of assumptions. Seems like they round 0.1 to 1.

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But were the mistakes made before it was shown to the politicians?
If they knowingly lied then yes they should go, but if they didn't know the information was wrong, then they acted on it in good faith

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he already has... when he was in Iraq he called them 'weapons of mass distraction'!

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There should be an enquiry into why the intelligence services lied, then. It's their job to present facts, with some opinions. I find it hard to believe they said they were sure of the WMD when it's clear they didn't know enough. Seems more likely to me that they presented possibilities and suspicions and the politicians turned these to certainties.

If it wasn't the politicians it was the Intel services that lied, either way there are serious consequences.

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yup, there definitely should.

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http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player...20Word&wvx-300
What is wrong with these people? Saddam said he had no weapons, he let inspectors in they found nothing. Why can't they admit the mistake/lie?

I know it's a good thing he's gone, but they lied about the reasons, do they think this is going to be let go?

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It looks like they have found something,


Here is the full story, maybe Blair and Bush will eventually get off the hook ?

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At risk of sounding biased I highly doubt this counts as Mass destruction. And they certainly were not able to launch in 45 minutes. Although it's the best find so far, IMO this on it own would not have justified the war.

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Interesting though...

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I assume that one of the important questions is whether these are still viable weapons. Having been buried in the desert for 10 years there is the possibility that the active components will have broken down over time. I suspect that a lot of the flag waving, when it happens, will depend on that.

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Of course there is the posibility that he managed to move them over to Syria.

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Whether the WMD's were deliberately represented doesn't really bother me. The outcome, that is the removal of a brutal repressive dictator, is what concerns me. I believe that the outcome justifies the war even if we went in under false pretenses. According to most news sources the Iraqi people on the whole were happy with the removal of Saddam and the ruling party and I wish them good luck in the future and I'm sure we'll give them some of the help that they need to rebuild. Now lets move on :)

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Now let's move on and invade any and every other country that has "brutal and repressive dictators" (well, apart from ones like Saudi Arabia because they're our allies) and make the world safe for truth, justice and mom's apple pie...

(Here we go again... :rolleyes: )

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Or we could try diplomatic pressure first hoping they'll change their ways and try and make things better for their country, whilst acknowledging that this isn't an overnight job and will take many years, just like what's going on with Saudi :D

Diplomatic channels must be tried first (like they were with iraq for the 12 years leading up to the ousting of saddam)

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Sorry, how long has the current situation in Saudi been going on? Or China? Or Myanmar? Or the Sudan? Or...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/032800-01.htm

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Thats not exactly how I remember it. He was very obstructive as far as the weapons inspectors were concerned.