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"maff" |
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27 Mar 2005 11:33:46 AM |
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OT: 11 days that led Britain to war |
11 days that led Britain to war
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=624053
Each drip of information about the legal advice behind the Government's
decision to commit Britain to the invasion of Iraq has only fuelled
suspicions about the road to war, say Raymond Whitaker and James
Hanning. But each attempt by Downing Street to block the release of any
documents moves the focus from the Attorney General and back to the
doors of No 10, where the fateful decisions were taken
27 March 2005
Jack Straw has emerged remarkably unscathed from all the inquests into
the Iraq war, despite having served as a senior Labour cabinet minister
since 1997. He was not called to give evidence to the Hutton inquiry
into the death of David Kelly and, although he did appear before the
Butler inquiry into intelligence failures before the war, that was
behind closed doors.
So the Foreign Secretary must have been rather bemused to find himself
at the dispatch box in the House of Commons on Thursday, more than two
years after the start of hostilities in Iraq, still trying to damp down
the fires of speculation over how we were led into war. Not only has
the Government failed to dispel suspicions that it misused intelligence
about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction to make the
case for attacking Iraq, but a new conflagration has sprung up over the
legality of the war. The more information that emerges about both
issues, the clearer it becomes that they are intertwined.
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