News Flash From The Land Of DUH!

UnCheneyingbelievable!

45 minute claim is dumped

By Joe Murphy, Political Editor, Evening Standard
12 October 2004

The infamous 45-minute claim about Saddam Hussein's weapons was finally laid to rest today when MI6 formally dropped the source of the misleading intelligence.

In a special Commons statement, MPs were told the Secret Intelligence Service [SIS] would no longer use the "line of reporting" that came up with what became the most notorious propaganda of the run-up to the war with Iraq.

In addition, SIS dropped a second supplier of intelligence, described only as a "liaison service", which was responsible for the false claim that Saddam was producing a biological weapons agent.

The announcement comes nearly 18 months after the end of the war and days after the final report of the Iraq Survey Group confirmed that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. In fact, he probably destroyed Iraqi stockpiles around a decade ago. It followed an internal investigation forced by serious criticism of the way MI6 vetted and validated intelligence put into the discredited 2002 dossier on Iraqi weaponry.

The 45-minute claim was at the centre of the row between the Government and the BBC that led to the suicide of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly. The Hutton inquiry then found that Ministry of Defence experts were scornful of the intelligence. LINK

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The announcement comes nearly 18 months after the end of the war and days after the final report of the Iraq Survey Group confirmed that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.

Real scoop there, Joe!

Who the Cheney could make this statement with a straight face?

Thousands dead. Thousands more maimed and scarred for life.

Hundreds of billions wasted on war toys instead of food and medicine.

Gee! Thanks, MI6, for clearing that up for me!

I was worried that Iraq could deploy those WMDs THAT THEY NEVER HAD in 45 minutes.

Whew! I feel much safer now. NOT!

Oh, by the way...
"line of reporting" and "liaison service" must be Brit for "a pimp named Chalabi."