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Thread #104818   Message #2159838
Posted By: Folkiedave
29-Sep-07 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
Subject: RE: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
Here is what the Prime Minister said:

"I am aware, of course, that people will have to take elements of this on the good faith of our intelligence services, but this is what they are telling me, the British Prime Minister, and my senior colleagues. The intelligence picture that they paint is one accumulated over the last four years. It is extensive, detailed and authoritative. It concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population, and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability."

Now the question you need to answer Teribus is not about the Sun headline but whether what Blair said was true or not. Of course it is possible to argue he is quoting what the Intelligence Services said. Since we later found out this was based on hearsay and clearly wasn't true I would argue it was duplicitous.

As far as the Saddam search for Uranium in Africa was concerned the intelligence report was based on forged documents. Of course the US admits it was wrong. To say the UK does not admit its mistake does not mean they were right - just that they haven't admitted their duplicity. #you may find this hard to believe but the UK goverment does not go around saying, "Ooops sorry we lied". Just because they haven't admitted their duplicity does not mean to say they weren't duplicitous.

As far as WMD's were concerned, did they find any or was it to make sure he didn't make any more?

Well he certainly didn't have any worth bothering about that's for sure - you can be certain we would be still hearing about them in letters six foot high if he had.

As for not making any more weapons, that really worked didn't it. Since the start of the war around 80,000 civilians killed. 3,800+ American soldiers killed, and around 25,000 American soldiers wounded, about 1,000 sent home for mental problems. Around 300 UK soldiers killed.

It was about stopping Saddam making more weapons? Tell that to the 49 killed yesterday.