Blair on the offensive over missing WMD

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=422946

Tony Blair appeared yesterday to scale down his claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) at the start of the Iraq war in March.

The Prime Minister insisted that evidence proving that Iraq had possessed the weapons would be found, but hinted that he believed they may have been destroyed or concealed.

In a two-and-a-half grilling by senior MPs, he rejected the finding by the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Monday that the "jury is still out" on whether Iraq had WMD. He said: "I believe we did the right thing . I stand 100 per cent by it. For me the jury is not out. It's not out at all."

Mr Blair repeatedly used the past tense when describing Iraq's weapons. He told the Commons liaison committee that the Government's dossier published in September was right "at the time". On the dossier's claim that chemical and biological weapons could be deployed in 45 minutes, he said: "I certainly would want to reiterate the validity of that intelligence as we received it last September."

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[RobertSeattle]

1. At least Blair has the brains and balls to try to defend himself

Bush would be DESTROYED if he had to go in front of a British Parliment. (And Clinton would kick butt)

[Lizz612]

2. At least Parliment

has the guts to take him to task for the lack of WMD!

[JackSwift]

3. BushReich hung Blair out to dry yesterday

when they finally admitted the "evidence" wasn't "accurate". Now the opposition in the UK will start hammering Blair on when he knew the information was "inaccurate". The evidence is very strong that Bush knew before the State of the Union speech. So when did Blair know?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Blair is nearing the end

The only thing is I hope the British people have enough sense to not vote the Tories back in. That would be the same thing as going from the frying pan right into the fire!

:eyes:

[Capt_Nemo]

5. I find most amusing the shift

from WMD evidence to WMD programs evidence...
this will most likely come in the form of documents forged in
the same place as the Niger document or the Galloway Iraqi receipts...

[dbt]

6. Sit up, Tony!

Now fetch the stick! And if you make it through the flaming hoop, there'll be a doggie (style) treat for you!

There's a good poodle.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[grytpype]

7. No, looters took them!

Get with the program, Tony!