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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (420382)	6/29/2003 6:59:12 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If Bush had waited 3 weeks, we'd have UN peacekeepers in now, and there would be very little killing in "post-war" Iraq. Instead, there IS no post-war in Iraq. The war continues, and it's very messy and needless. These soldiers of our who are dying now are truly blood on the hands of the neocons. But they dont seem to care. No wonder, because none of them ever served in combat themselves. Soldires are just pawns to them. Pieces on their chessboard.

To: Doug R who wrote (420382)	6/29/2003 6:59:39 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

AS spends 80% of her day here spitting out hate and bile. Tell HER to go to her own thread. Go on dougie, ask her....you askeered? I know you would have just let Saddam keep on killing his own people, as it seemed to suit you, but President Bush did not let it continue...of course your anti American stance is noted, and your type will always seek your own reward, the hell with others, huh?.

To: Doug R who wrote (420382)	6/29/2003 7:10:09 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 769670

Blair's office did not 'sex up' intelligence report, lawmaker on investigating committee says By ED JOHNSON LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair's office did not doctor an intelligence report to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, a lawmaker involved in an official probe said Sunday. Eric Illsley, a member of a Parliamentary committee investigating the government's use of intelligence material to justify a war in Iraq, said he was satisfied Blair's all powerful communications chief Alastair Campbell had not tampered with the dossier. But fellow committee member John Maples said his colleague's remarks were premature, adding the official verdict would be announced next week. "We haven't come to any conclusions at all yet," he said. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee is, in part, investigating a report by the British Broadcasting Corp. that Blair aides redrafted a dossier published in September last year to include claims that Saddam could launch chemical and biological weapons at 45 minutes' notice. BBC defense correspondent Andrew Gilligan said that intelligence officials were unhappy with the 'sexed up' report and believed the information about the 45-minute notice came from a single, unreliable source and was incorrect. The story prompted accusations that the government had exaggerated the scale of the Iraqi weapons threat to convince skeptical lawmakers of the necessity of war. Government relations with the BBC have slumped to their lowest level in years, with Campbell and the corporation's director of news Richard Sambrook firing venomous open letters at each other. The government is demanding an apology and neither side is backing down. In the latest twist in the political soap opera, Illsley said Sunday he and other committee members, who have cross examined ministers, were satisfied the dossier and the 45-minute detail were compiled by intelligence chiefs. "The claim of the 45 minutes availability of weapons of mass destruction was inserted in the dossier by the intelligence services not by Mr. Campbell," Illsley, who is a member of Blair's governing Labor Party, told LBC radio. Maples, a member of the main opposition Conservatives, countered. "We haven't met to decide yet what we are going to do," he told BBC radio. "We are meeting on Tuesday to decide." Downing Street declined to comment and said it would wait for the committee's official verdict. canoe.ca