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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25262)7/20/2003 10:32:15 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Respond to of 25898
 
You people are in deep doo-doo.

You have been caught out in almost all of your lies. Some of us Mensa type are keen on your total destruction. 100% of your vile, impotent lies will eventually be exposed.

You ought to take your money and run. Get out now, before you're outted.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25262)7/21/2003 4:06:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 25898
 
Re: My quiz in message #25028 (*):

Correct answer: Pr David Kelly

Dead arms expert was weapons source: BBC

By CHRISTINE BOYD
From Monday's Globe and Mail


British Prime Minister Tony Blair struggled Sunday to quell the biggest crisis of his leadership, ruling out his resignation over the apparent suicide of a government weapons expert but promising to take responsibility if an inquiry finds that the government had a role in the man's death.

Mr. Blair persevered with a tour through East Asia despite a weekend in which journalists peppered him with questions about his role in the scandal over the handling of intelligence used to justify war against Iraq.

But he was unable to shake the spectre of David Kelly, found dead with his left wrist slit near his Oxfordshire home on Friday.

The British Broadcasting Corp. confirmed Sunday that the scientist was its source for a May report that Downing Street inflated the threat posed by Iraq.

"I have been through quite a few times when people have said this is a terrible situation and all the rest of it . . . but you go through tough times as a government and you go through difficult times as the Prime Minister," Mr. Blair told Britain's Sky Television before he left Japan for South Korea and China.

Asked if he felt he could continue as Prime Minister, a haggard-looking Mr. Blair replied: "Absolutely."

But the British leader, struggling to woo an increasingly disenchanted public and hold his party together as the conflict in Iraq drags on, faced increasing calls for his government to be held accountable — even from within his party.
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