Saturday, January 24, 2004
Saddam's WMD never existed, says chief American arms inspector. Handpicked by Bush for the job, went in expecting to find WMD, you'd think it would be difficult for the Bush administration to positively spin this but you have to admire them for adapting quickly. Presumably to try and buy time and tread water until the elections they've had both Richard Perle and Dick Cheney giving interviews with the new line, namely that we should make no judgement until every cubic inch of Iraq has been searched, which would mean judging the Bush presidency until long after it had finished, whether he actually wins this election this time or not.
Tony Blair meanwhile seems to have decided to ignore the nuanced approach and is insisting the WMD are still there, waiting to be found. This stubborn ignoring of the facts possibly explains exactly WHY Ali C made the changes to the dodgy dossier, he either shared Blair's belief or believed in Blair so that he thought that there truly were WMD out there, the British Intelligence Services just lacked proof. After all, if the day after we had invaded Iraq we'd found big piles of anthrax, would there have been any complaint about the lack of accuracy in the dossier? An alternative is that if Gilligan did lie and put words in Dr. Kelly's mouth at their interview, then like the 'psychic' in From Hell he made it up, and it still came true anyway.
Tony Blair meanwhile seems to have decided to ignore the nuanced approach and is insisting the WMD are still there, waiting to be found. This stubborn ignoring of the facts possibly explains exactly WHY Ali C made the changes to the dodgy dossier, he either shared Blair's belief or believed in Blair so that he thought that there truly were WMD out there, the British Intelligence Services just lacked proof. After all, if the day after we had invaded Iraq we'd found big piles of anthrax, would there have been any complaint about the lack of accuracy in the dossier? An alternative is that if Gilligan did lie and put words in Dr. Kelly's mouth at their interview, then like the 'psychic' in From Hell he made it up, and it still came true anyway.
