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To: Kelvin Taylor who wrote (1295)8/5/2004 2:04:33 PM
From: Thomas M.  Respond to of 1347
 
<<< As the Butler Report puts it ...

"The forged documents were not available to the British Government at the time its assessment was made, and so the fact of the forgery does not undermine it."

In other words, whatever the deal was with those forgeries, it doesn't affect our judgment because we didn't have the forgeries.

This is what can only be called an artful rendering of the truth.

No, they didn't have the forged documents. But one of their two reports -- indeed, the more important of the two -- was a written summary of the documents provided by Italy ... >>>

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Tom