[americanbychoice]

Not only did Blair not say it, Bush in his adress didn't either.
Rather he said that we need to act BEFORE it becomes an imminent threat.
The media will take anything out of context to their own advantage. They must have been to the Goebbels School of Propaganda. Shovel enough against the wall, something will stick?

[Michael81Dus]

Oh, I didn´t say that Bush had said it. The 45 minutes claim was made so public in the press (it was mentioned in a government paper) that I thought it was true. A google-search only brought me to thousands of sites where it was stated that Blair had claimed it, but these sites all are wrong. Now I know that it wasn´t Blair who said it, but a government source, which Blair only referred to. He never made this 45 minutes claim by his own. It´s truly amazing which power media has.