As McGrath says. The government deliberately chose to mislead the public with the scare tactic of 45 minutes. They knew -- and this was disclosed under oath -- that that was not what the original phrase submitted by their own intelligence community was. They edited out the important bits so as to highlight the 45 minutes claim, so that the British public would believe that Saddam Hussein was prepared to go nuclear or biological or chemical in an attack on somewhere (they edited out the somewhere as well, so as to let people think it was their backyard). The proof that they knew what they were doing was the headlines in the papers the next day all focussed on the 45 minutes claim. To imagine that the spin doctors in the government had no idea that people would focus on this is absurd. This is sexing up. THEY DID THIS. It is a matter of public record, known as the Hutton Inquiry. Lord Hutton ignored his own record of evidence.
Yours,

Peter T.