{"article":{"id":71049,"heading":"Blair cleared of deception on Iraq","author":"AP","created":"2003-07-10 11:47:10","modified":"2003-07-11 13:51:22","last_modified":"Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:51:22","article":"

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.\"

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<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Round 1 Knockout. Victory for lovers of Freedom world wide. Pro-Saddam leftists and anarchists lose again.","numcomment":15,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/07\/71049.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":71051,"heading":"Blair","article":"Com'n you little left-wing\/anarchist shills and trolls.\r\nTake the bait.","author":"poster","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 11:48:47","modified":"2003-07-10 11:48:47","fileurl":""},{"id":71098,"heading":"FUCK BLAIR","article":"Of course Blair was cleared. You didn't expect the corporate controlled war machine to hold him responsible, did you? Fuck you, asshole!!","author":"blair is guilty","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 13:23:01","modified":"2003-07-10 13:23:01","fileurl":""},{"id":71100,"heading":"RE: Blair","article":"Hey you big one eyed facist cyclop,\r\nGrow a brain...","author":"ignobuster","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 13:26:09","modified":"2003-07-10 13:26:09","fileurl":""},{"id":71105,"heading":"Yeah by one vote","article":"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.\r\nWe all know how votes can be manipulated by party lines, now don't we?","author":"mymicz","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 13:30:20","modified":"2003-07-10 13:30:20","fileurl":""},{"id":71123,"heading":"I am amused that our...","article":"...friendly neighborhood Shills would be so eager to solicit our opinions.\r\n\r\nI guess it is in recognition of our superior intellectual capabilities.\r\n\r\nBlair was cleared by his OWN party - barely.\r\n\r\nU.K. Public Opinion has him in the Gutter.\r\n\r\nThe BBC has filled his backside with enough Buckshot to leave him squirming.\r\n\r\nAs 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.\r\n\r\nTo the self congratulatory Moron who posted his "thoughts" - this is no different than a Democrat Unanimous Vote to not Convict Clinton.\r\n\r\nIt proves nothing.\r\n\r\nTILT\r\n\r\nPlay Again?","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 14:05:00","modified":"2003-07-10 14:05:00","fileurl":""},{"id":71127,"heading":"It's so easy to spin you lefties up.","article":"Just feed them the facts and they bounce around like a superball in a trampoline factory.\r\n\r\n1 vote or 1000 votes. Cleared is cleared.","author":"Eric","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 14:13:33","modified":"2003-07-10 14:13:33","fileurl":""},{"id":71137,"heading":"All Clear","article":"It's always good to walk around with the fragerences still lingering.\r\nOh and just like the FBI and CIA come somehow exonerate themselves \r\nwe can now chuckle about our foolishness. Where do they manufacture these wacko rationalizations one would wonder.\r\nThe truth will continue to oooooozzzz out.","author":"Still dripping, waiting for the hose","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 14:59:37","modified":"2003-07-10 14:59:37","fileurl":""},{"id":71142,"heading":"Golllllleeeeeeeee!","article":"Your "Football" Anology has just left me stunned.\r\n\r\nGosh Goober you're so bright.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 15:19:09","modified":"2003-07-10 15:19:09","fileurl":""},{"id":71153,"heading":"sphere","article":""The truth will continue to oooooozzzz out."\r\n\r\ncircle\r\ncircle going nowhere\r\ncircle stuck in neutral","author":"circle","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 16:16:50","modified":"2003-07-10 16:16:50","fileurl":""},{"id":71158,"heading":"Does Anyone here read except diogenes?","article":"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.\r\nIn 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.\r\nSee, 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.","author":"mymicz","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 16:25:06","modified":"2003-07-10 16:25:06","fileurl":""},{"id":71178,"heading":"Blair","article":" 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.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 17:21:08","modified":"2003-07-10 17:21:08","fileurl":""},{"id":71180,"heading":"ML","article":"Yeah well, nobody asked you.","author":"lm","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-10 17:25:53","modified":"2003-07-10 17:25:53","fileurl":""},{"id":71408,"heading":"sphere","article":""It's fun to watch you implode like this. It's also to the point that it happens so often it's getting boring." \r\n\r\ncircle \r\ncircle going nowhere \r\ncircle stuck in neutral\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"circle","parent_id":71049,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-11 13:51:22","modified":"2003-07-11 13:51:22","fileurl":""}]}