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To: maceng2 who wrote (560)	1/29/2004 9:34:44 AM
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Half Britons say Hutton was "whitewash" Thu 29 January, 2004 13:18 reuters.co.uk LONDON (Reuters) - Half of Britons believe the Hutton inquiry into the death of Iraq weapons expert David Kelly was a whitewash, according to a newspaper poll. The NOP survey for the London Evening Standard said 49 percent agreed with the question "do you agree or disagree that the report was a whitewash". Four out of 10 of those questioned said they disagreed and 11 percent said they didn't know in a poll of 521 people conducted on Wednesday. Hutton's report cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair of lying to parliament over the Iraq war and piled blame on the BBC, which broadcast a report accusing the government of exaggerating the case for war. Seven out of 10 of those polled said there should be an independent inquiry into the reasons the government gave for the war. A third said they were now less likely to vote for Blair, compared to three percent who said it was more likely. Fifty-six percent said it was unfair the BBC received most of the blame, against 35 percent who said it was fair. Half said they were unconvinced by Hutton's verdict that the government had not acted in a "dishonourable or duplicitous" manner, compared to 36 percent who backed the judge. The poll echoes newspaper scepticism in the wake of the Hutton report's publication on Wednesday. The Independent's blank front page bore the word "Whitewash?" in small red letters, while the tabloid Daily Mail's headline asked "Justice?". Conservative legislator and Daily Telegraph columnist Boris Johnson said Blair had been "sprayed with more whitewash than a Costa Brava timeshare".