Analysis: Iraq Dossier Deliberately Stretched to the 'Outer Limits' of the Truth
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LORD BUTLER
DID Tony Blair mislead the British public on the eve of sending troops into war with Iraq? For 18 months, this question has hung over the Prime Minister and yesterday, it was finally answered: yes.See the full content of this document
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Analysis: Iraq Dossier Deliberately Stretched to the 'Outer Limits' of the Truth
Lord Butler explicitly cleared the Prime Minister of any "deliberate attempt on the part of the government to mislead".
However, the facts he presented tell their own, devastating story.To use Lord Butler's phrase, Mr Blair's dossier was deliberately stretched to the "outer limits" of the truth. As a result, Britain was assured that Saddam had weapons, when the intelligence services admitted they could only guess.Mr Blair gave a bravura performance yesterday - skilfully pushing the deba...See the full content of this document
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