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To: SiouxPal who wrote (34816)	7/10/2004 6:32:44 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Cook: US, UK made "fundamental error" in pre-Iraq war intelligence LONDON, July 10 (Xinhuanet) -- US and British intelligence services made "fundamental error" on the intelligence behind theirgovernments' decision to launch the war against Iraq, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said in an interview with the BBC radio Saturday. "It was a fundamental error that went wrong on both sides of the Atlantic," said Cook, one day after the US Senate investigation concluded that the principal claims justifying the Iraqi war were fundamentally wrong. The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq in March 2003 on the grounds that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and was developing nuclear weapons. The two governments had <font color=red>"made up their minds they were going towar," <font color=black>Cook said, noting <font color=red>"the intelligence agencies were then left in the position of finding intelligence to support the conclusion." "Nobody except Washington and London thought that Saddam was such a threat that we had immediately to go to war," he said. <font color=black> Cook, serving as the country's foreign secretary from 1997 to 2001 and then leader of House of Commons, resigned just days before the war in protest of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance on war. British former top civil servant Lord Butler will deliver a report next Wednesday on the government's intelligence before the war against Iraq. It is expected to criticize Britain's spymastersand some government figures. Blair was forced in February to set up the Butler inquiry into the quality of Britain's prewar intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction by the US decision to do likewise. news.xinhuanet.com