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A wilderness of mirrors.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 899 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A wilderness of mirrors.(editorial)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
In the wake of the release of the Hutton Report, few seem to have observed that its findings were not a crucial arbiter of the conduct of the Blair government; or of Colin Powell, who relied on British intelligence reports for his UN speech indicting Iraq; or of John Howard, who appears to have picked up whatever came into the mail and read it into the parliamentary record. The Blair government took a range of intelligence reports knowing full well the highly variable quality of such information and sold them as multiply verified and confirmed reports.

It appears to have been forgotten that Blair's staffers had already been caught playing fast and loose in mounting the case for war prior to the claim that Iraq had WMDs capable of deployment within forty-five minutes--with the...



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