Kelly foretold 'death in the woods' - ths Guardian story has links at the bottom to the whole shooting match, transcripts and all.

It is all pretty sickening. And the most sickening thing is how they are all waltzing around arguing about what are really trivial techicalities - such as whether the government employees in intelligence hyped up the threat in the dossier on direct orders from the government, or whether they provided what was required without needing to be directly told what to do.

What is crystal clear is that the case for going to war, as it was presented by Tony Blair and company, seriously mistated and exaggerated the facts. And I don't think there can be all that many people who genuinely believe he wasn't aware of that.

And this is a different question from whether there might have been a valid case for war, as the only way of eliminating a loathsome tyrant - because that wasn't the excuse for war which was presented to our representatives. The official line was that getting rid of Saddam was merely a welcome side-effect of getting rid of the "weapons of mass destruction". If he got rid of them himself, we were told, he would be welcome to stay in power, so far as the British Gvernment was concerned.