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Originally Posted by Nor
If the intelligence said it was there then he was following duff intelligence, he wasn't lying.
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that is correct, the hutton report stated that it was the intelligence agencies that drew the reports up, that said iraq/saddam had WMD.
the government is not to blame the intelligence agencies are.......
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Originally Posted by Julian
We are talking about invading a country here.... wouldn't you have expected him to have knowledge of the whereabouts of these WMD before going in? That would be good intelligence information and worthy of action.
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he trusted the intelligence services on the information they gave to him, now we dont know what or how much information was given, but it was enough to prompt blair to join the invasion.
yes he should have looked in to the intelligence but wouldnt you trust your own agencies ?