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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (432273)	7/23/2003 5:53:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood firm Wednesday on his government's use of intelligence information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, saying he had "no doubt at all" of its accuracy. Blair, coming under intense questioning in the House of Commons, said that any suggestion that evidence of WMD had been invented was "absurd." The prime minister also reiterated his position that parliament had not been "misled in any way at all" by information contained in dossiers used by the UK government to justify war with Iraq. ............................................................................................ Blair, appearing before the House of Commons Liaison Committee Tuesday, defended his government's case for going to war with Iraq and rejected claims that he misled Britain ahead of the conflict. "I think we did the right thing in relation to Iraq. I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time." (Full story) .................................................................................................. But in March, the International Atomic Energy Agency dismissed as forgeries documents that alleged Iraq may have tried to buy 500 tons of uranium from Niger. (Full story) Blair has maintained his government had separate sources for the alleged resumption of uranium trade between Iraq and Niger and that it did not rely on the documents the IAEA said were forgeries. On Tuesday, Blair told the committee "the evidence that we had that Iraq had gone back to Niger to try to purchase further amounts of uranium from Niger did not come from these so-called forged documents, they came from separate intelligence and again, insofar as our intelligence services are concerned, they stand by that. "Now we said ... that we believed that they [Iraq] tried to purchase this uranium but we couldn't say whether they'd been successful in doing so, so we said exactly what the intelligence was." There's weasling in there? Seems like a total denial.