Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Aaah, anger my old friend, you'll never leave me. Lying scumfuck Tony Blair tries to turn victory in Hutton Inquiry into validation of UK's War in Iraq. Yes, despite the fact that Lord Hutton specifically says that he is not going to pass judgement on whether there are WMD in Iraq or whether the war was right, Tony Blair has decided that because the Inquiry said that Andrew Gilligan was wrong in reporting that David Kelly has said that Ali C made changes to the dodgy dossier to promote Tony Blair's unproven case for war, then therefore the war was valid.
Mr Blair said the "real lie" was the claim he had misled the country by falsifying intelligence on weapons of mass destruction or lied to MPs.
Without the kind of full inquiry that Tony Blair would not dream of sanctioning he will never be able to prove that he did not lie to the country and the Houses of Parliament. The only apology he is warranted is from the BBC for broadcasting Andrew Gilligan's report without checking, though perhaps he'd like to explain why if the accusations levelled at him by BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan were extremely serious he did nothing about it until Gilligan accused Ali C of being responsible for it in a seperate article for the Mail on Sunday?
And consider the following statement from Lord Hutton's conclusions as to why he didn't find the Government guilty of anything:
Therefore, whether or not at some time in the future the report on which the 45 minutes claim was based is shown to be unreliable, the allegation reported by Mr Gilligan on 29 May 2003 that the Government probably knew that the 45 minutes claim was wrong before the Government decided to put it in the dossier, was an allegation which was unfounded.
This was a clear example in the end of how Lord Hutton was refusing to use his Inquiry to judge the validity of going to war, just that, in the case of Andrew Gilligan's report, it was a claim made without proof.
If the BBC found out tomorrow from another source with slightly more evidence that the Government had lied or misled the people of this country I would hope that, after verifying it, they wouldn't hesitate to make that report to the country.
Mr Blair said the "real lie" was the claim he had misled the country by falsifying intelligence on weapons of mass destruction or lied to MPs.
Without the kind of full inquiry that Tony Blair would not dream of sanctioning he will never be able to prove that he did not lie to the country and the Houses of Parliament. The only apology he is warranted is from the BBC for broadcasting Andrew Gilligan's report without checking, though perhaps he'd like to explain why if the accusations levelled at him by BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan were extremely serious he did nothing about it until Gilligan accused Ali C of being responsible for it in a seperate article for the Mail on Sunday?
And consider the following statement from Lord Hutton's conclusions as to why he didn't find the Government guilty of anything:
Therefore, whether or not at some time in the future the report on which the 45 minutes claim was based is shown to be unreliable, the allegation reported by Mr Gilligan on 29 May 2003 that the Government probably knew that the 45 minutes claim was wrong before the Government decided to put it in the dossier, was an allegation which was unfounded.
This was a clear example in the end of how Lord Hutton was refusing to use his Inquiry to judge the validity of going to war, just that, in the case of Andrew Gilligan's report, it was a claim made without proof.
If the BBC found out tomorrow from another source with slightly more evidence that the Government had lied or misled the people of this country I would hope that, after verifying it, they wouldn't hesitate to make that report to the country.
