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Originally Posted by Nor
How exactly would you suggest Blair checks ? Gets dropped into Iraq by parachute ? When it comes to matters like this intelligence reports are what you base your decisions on. If it turns out it was flawed intelligence I think an enquiry would be a good idea. However, considering just about every other intelligence service in the world believed the same thing I can see why it was believed to be credible intelligence that Iraq had WMD.
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Blair could have asked for field reports from agents, surveillance photographs etc. and could have asked how current the information was. If he did this and was lied to by the Head of British Intelligence, why hasn't the head of the intelligence service been sacked? After all it is the agency that defends the security of the nation.
The Americans believed that there were weapons of mass destruction because their intelligence was based on what our intelligence service told them. The moment they found out about the uncertainty of the information supplied by British Intelligence, the Americans began to slowly distance themselves from the British Government.
Where are the current reports of the agents who were working in Iraq? My guess is that there aren't any. Nobody bothered to verify on the ground that the weapons existed. They just assumed he still had them from 1991.That is no way to run an Intelligence service.