"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 01:55:58 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"geoff" wrote in message
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In message , Ashley Stevens
writes
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Its patently obvious what happened.

You sound just like Tony Blair now....

No, it seems that in the face of overwhelming lack of evidence and bush
doing an about turn, Bliar has had to admit there might be a failing
somewhere

I have yet to hear this from minimie

Maxie, the UK intelligence people kept telling the government that WUD
would
be found. So they tell people that. TB doesn't look under rocks in the
desert you know.

Understandable. He'd find cabinet members under them......

LOL, such fun.

If it appears there are no "smoking gun" WUD, then an inquiry has to set
up.

... in an attempt to spin the story further and try to distance
himself from the sh*t.

He only acts on intelligence given to him. If it is incorrect then that is
not his fault.

Then all he has to do is to blame it on the faceless and nameless
intelligence services who can't be named "for security reasons".

If they were wrong, then they were wrong. Simple.

But the capability to get them zippo was there, which is the main point,
and
I'm sure that will come out. You don't need a smoking gun.

You do for the position that he took.

No you don't.

I wouldn't have minded if he and Dubya had simply said that regime
change was the thing to do.

They did day that.

The game played was simply because of
lack of popular and UN support and became a face saving exercise.

The US doesn't give a toss. They had the planes rammed into their blocks,
not the French or the others. They see a Middle Eastern terrorist backing
tyrant, who did/had WMD, so out he goes. Job done, who cares. Now more
stability in the world.