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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1908)	2/12/2004 1:21:59 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

In quotes: Blair and Iraq weapons The government is to establish an independent inquiry into the intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. So what statements did the prime minister make about Saddam Hussein's weapons? Here are some of his key quotes - before and after the war. 10 April 2002, House of Commons "Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. "He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also." Full story 24 September 2002, House of Commons "It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability..." Full story 25 February 2003, House of Commons "The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. "The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death." Full story 11 March 2003, MTV debate "If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them." Full story 18 March 2003, House of Commons "We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd." Full story 4 June 2003, House of Commons "There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly. "As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction." Full story 8 July 2003, Evidence to Commons liaison committee "I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong. "I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes." Full story 16 December 2003, Interview with British Forces Broadcasting Service "The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles." 11 January 2004 , Interview with BBC Breakfast with Frost What you can say is that we received that intelligence about Saddam's programmes and about his weapons that we acted on that, it's the case throughout the whole of the conflict. I remember having conversations with the chief of defence staff and other people were saying well, we think we might have potential WMD find here or there. Now these things didn't actually come to anything in the end, but I don't know is the answer. And what I do know is that the group of people that are in there now, this Iraq survey group, they produced an interim report." Full story 25 January 2004, Interview with the Observer newspaper "I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine. "It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation." news.bbc.co.uk