Tony Blair privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today." We know all about the Cook revelations ("Blair 'knew Iraq had no WMD'"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1166479.ece) .
According to David Stringer of the Associated press: "An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that became vital to Tony Blair's case for war, the newly published document showed Monday." However, "Blair presented a final draft of the JIC [Joint Intelligence Committee] dossier, called "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction," to parliament on Sep. 24, 2002 - a document that included the 45-minute claim.( http://tinyurl.com/2pgzhd)"
According to Robin Cook: "I have no reason to doubt that Tony Blair believed in September that Saddam really had weapons of mass destruction ready for firing within 45 minutes. What was clear from this conversation was that he did not believe it himself in March."
The rest is tragedy and guilt.
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