On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:07:36 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:

Well, no wonder you-all were skeptical!

You can read what Blair was actually saving on the debate which
authorised miliary action in parliament.

http://www.publications.parliament.u...0318-06_spmin2

The 45 minutes stuff has been played up subsequently in the mass
hysteria to find disproveable claims in the intelligence dossiers to
invalidate the subsequent decision to go to war. I for one did not
understand it then to be critical to the case either way, but then
perhaps I was guilty of using some adult critical faculty to approach
the media hype with some degree of skepticism.

Gavin Bailey


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Fochinell

"Ancient Scottish battle cry" painted on the side of a Spitfire Mk. XIV in 1944
- presumably without Air Ministry approval.