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To: Houmatt
I think this is the memo related to Tony Blair's government - and I am SO fuzzy on this - allegedly produced by a member of his government who later committed suicide - it was later discredited as revealing not that intelligence was manipulated, but that it was simply badly done. Or something like that.

Disregarded then as booshwah, finally, IMHO it was resurrected two days before the election in Great Britain by the London Times in an election-influence effort. That's why it has not caught fire and resulted in the resignation of George Bush, the elevation of John Kerry to the presidency by popular acclamation contrary to the constitution, and mass execution of all conservative Americans by liberofascists and radical Islamists.

3 posted on 05/21/2005 7:31:52 AM PDT by TheGeezer
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To: TheGeezer

"I think this is the memo related to Tony Blair's government - and I am SO fuzzy on this - allegedly produced by a member of his government who later committed suicide - it was later discredited as revealing not that intelligence was manipulated, but that it was simply badly done. Or something like that.

Disregarded then as booshwah, finally, IMHO it was resurrected two days before the election in Great Britain by the London Times in an election-influence effort. That's why it has not caught fire and resulted in the resignation of George Bush, the elevation of John Kerry to the presidency by popular acclamation contrary to the constitution, and mass execution of all conservative Americans by liberofascists and radical Islamists."

You're confusing several different things.

The person who committed suicide was Dr David Kelly, a weapons expert and member of the Iraq survey group, in relation to reported claims that he believed the pre-war dossier on Iraqi wmd to have been influenced politically and not to have included caveats that should have been included. This was largely substantiated by the subsequent Butler Report.

The memo discussed here was only first released a few weeks ago, it had not been seen before. It has been implicitly confirmed as genuine by the UK government (ie. a government spokesman has commented on it and no-one has attempted to claim it isn't genuine).

It creates more serious allegations against Blair then Bush imo. As someone else said, regime change in Iraq was a stated policy of the US. Blair specifically denied pursuing this policy (indeed stated that it would be illegal) while, according to this memo, privately committing to it.


9 posted on 05/21/2005 8:07:31 AM PDT by Canard
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