LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair's government mishandled intelligence material on Iraqi weapons, a parliamentary committee reported Monday, but said it found no evidence Blair or his ministers deliberately misled lawmakers.

The committee also cleared Blair's communications chief of accusations he redrafted an intelligence dossier against the wishes of intelligence agencies to include unreliable information.





The allegations, arising from a British Broadcasting Corp. report, have soured relations between the broadcaster and the government, which on Monday repeated its demand for an apology.

But the critical parliamentary report heaped further pressure on the government to find tangible evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - and said that without such proof, the accuracy of British intelligence dossiers would remain in doubt.

"It is too soon to tell whether the government's assertions on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons will be borne out," said the report.

Blair, like President Bush, has been charged by political opponents with overstating the threat posed by Iraq before the war as a means of justifying it.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw defended the intelligence material and said the government had been right to go to war.

"Of course I understand that the public would like to see further evidence of the possession of chemical and biological weapons capability and plans to build nuclear capability," Straw said. "But the evidence available . . . at the time we took the decision to go to war was overwhelming."

http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/america_at_war/article/0,1426,MCA_945_2094715,00.html

Com'n you little left-wing/anarchist shills and trolls.
Take the bait.

Of course Blair was cleared. You didn't expect the corporate controlled war machine to hold him responsible, did you? Fuck you, asshole!!

Hey you big one eyed facist cyclop,
Grow a brain...

They cleared Blair by one vote, with a 49% dissenting opinion and another commitee still reviewing the case, not to mention that this commitee, repeatedly stated that they wanted to see more information.
We all know how votes can be manipulated by party lines, now don't we?

...friendly neighborhood Shills would be so eager to solicit our opinions.

I guess it is in recognition of our superior intellectual capabilities.

Blair was cleared by his OWN party - barely.

U.K. Public Opinion has him in the Gutter.

The BBC has filled his backside with enough Buckshot to leave him squirming.

As one previous poster pointed out the Puppet Masters who pull Blair's strings are not going to let him fall because then it completely destroys their "Business Plan". However, there is a limit - when Blair becomes too great a liability he will be allowed to hang in the wind.

To the self congratulatory Moron who posted his "thoughts" - this is no different than a Democrat Unanimous Vote to not Convict Clinton.

It proves nothing.

TILT

Play Again?

Just feed them the facts and they bounce around like a superball in a trampoline factory.

1 vote or 1000 votes. Cleared is cleared.

It's always good to walk around with the fragerences still lingering.
Oh and just like the FBI and CIA come somehow exonerate themselves
we can now chuckle about our foolishness. Where do they manufacture these wacko rationalizations one would wonder.
The truth will continue to oooooozzzz out.

Your "Football" Anology has just left me stunned.

Gosh Goober you're so bright.

"The truth will continue to oooooozzzz out."

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Two Panels...TWO Panels, 2. Is that clear? Two investigations, one which was voted on, but asked for MORE Evidence that BLAIR DID NOT WANT RELEASED!! One is still deliberating and will vote later.
In Jocko football terms for retards who only watch Monday night football and not the actual debate in Parliament, that means, someone called a technical foul after this vote, and the game is not over, in fact, since you don't know math, let me explain. Two panels, one is done, for now, that leaves one more, that means the game is at half time, and guess what, the Chargers haven't even brought in their star quarterback.
See, lefties can like football too, and they are even smart enough to talk to you retards in your own language. Sorry you're too dumb to read anything but a scoreboard.

The only clearing Blair should be doing is clearing up rubble in Baghdad after he and his fellow imperialist Bush are convicted of war crimes and sentenced to twenty years of serving the Iraqi people.

Yeah well, nobody asked you.

"It's fun to watch you implode like this. It's also to the point that it happens so often it's getting boring."

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