UK Parliament Clears Govt of Misleading on Iraq

Washington Post ^ | 07/07/03 | Katherine Baldwin

[bedolido]

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government did not mislead parliament or doctor evidence to justify the war on Iraq, a parliamentary committee concluded Monday.

The Foreign Affairs Committee, which has been probing charges officials exaggerated intelligence on Iraq's weapons to strengthen the case for war, cleared Blair, a top aide and ministers of the allegations, made on the BBC.

But the committee did slap the government's wrists for giving undue prominence to questionable intelligence in a September dossier on Iraq's weapons and for plagiarizing a student thesis for a second dossier published in February.

[mware]

LOL, PUT THAT IN THEIR BBC AND SMOKE IT.

[RightWhale]

for plagiarizing a student thesis

The world is topsy-turvy: students, undergrad, are notorious for this.

[MJY1288]

This needs to be forwarded to Carl (Marx) Levin

[ICX]

Suck it, Trebek!

One thing disturbs me though; plagarizing a student thesis? Hmm...

[BlessedBeGod]

Did they really plagiarize it, or forget to attribute it?

[TheDon]

That depends on which side of the aisle you are on.

[rintense]

Another DNC crying point down the tubes.

[Lunatic Fringe]

wow- that was pretty quick. I guess the British Parliament is more efficient than the US Congress.

[ravingnutter]

I guess the British Parliament is more efficient than the US Congress.

I keep a bumper sticker in my office that says "The Opposite of Progress is Congress".

[hchutch]

Oh, this is NOT going to go over well with the paleocons and the loony left...

[McGavin999]

And with that, the head of the BBC should be immediately terminated.

[MJY1288]

So if Tony Blair is cleared of misleading the public and he used the same "Shared Intel" as George W. Bush, I wonder if the media will "DO THE MATH" :-)

I doubt it