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It’s the spies wot gets the blame By William Bowles
“I saw evidence that was categoric on Saddam possessing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Now I saw the evidence, so did the Prime Minister, so did other cabinet ministers. That informed our decision to go topple him. I think we were right in doing so, but let’s wait and see what the jury… Continue reading
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Coitus Interruptus By William Bowles
“US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD”. So goes the headline in the Observer(01/02/04) but the reality is that the US government knew in 1991 that Iraq possessed no WMD as did the UK government. So what’s the argument all about? Why is it so important that a ‘battle royale’ is being conducted… Continue reading
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David Kay and the CIA By William Bowles
As I suggested in a previous piece (“Bush spells it out”), the Iraq Survey Group’s interim report infers that Saddam pulled a ‘fast one’ on the USUK by ‘conning’ them into thinking Iraq had WMDs whereas in fact they didn’t and that this led to Iraq being invaded. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 