One thing Akenaton the date of this meeting was given as 31st January 2003 - Correct?

Now to all you Saddam apologists who keep telling the rest of us about how fully yer man was co-operating, why did GWB suggest they mark up a U-2 Recon Aircraft in UN colours, surely if Saddam as you say was co-operating fully, U-2 aircraft painted in UN colours would have been flying regularly over Iraq for the two months preceeding this meeting between Bush and Blair. You see such flights were required as part of the compliance criteria in UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - for Bush and Blair to talking about such a thing could only indicate that the Iraq Government were in material breach of 1441 - Correct? Even the affable good Doctor Blix complained about the lack of such flights to the UN Security Council.

So here we have another writer trying to sell a book by rehashing old news in an attempt to present it as something new. Sorry Ake nothing new at all in this - it's about asenthralling as "Dog bites man".

To the anti-war brigade no lies were told, no great campaign of deception, no massive propaganda effort, all involved acted in good faith in accordance with the evidence available at the time - and for our US contingent I do not believe it would have made the blindest bit of difference who was President at the time things would have come to pass pretty much as they have.