This Utter Disgrace ; British Soldiers Go Off to Die for a Cause Based On a Lie. Thousands of Civilians Are Killed. The Bbc Is Persecuted. And Dr Kelly Is Dead. Yet No One Resigns and No One Apologises. What, in the Name of Democracy, Is Going On?

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tony Blair made an extraordinary admission to the House of Commons that has scarcely been noticed - an admission so damning that even if he and his colleagues had done nothing else that was wrong over Iraq he should in all conscience resign at once.

Here was a man who had told us again and again that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and argued that it was this possession, which was beyond any shadow of a doubt, that justified and explained the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. This is what he said on Wednesday.

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This Utter Disgrace ; British Soldiers Go Off to Die for a Cause Based On a Lie. Thousands of Civilians Are Killed. The Bbc Is Persecuted. And Dr Kelly Is Dead. Yet No One Resigns and No One Apologises. What, in the Name of Democracy, Is Going On?

'I have to accept that it seems increasingly clear that Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.' In other words, despite Mr Blair's absolute and unequivocal assurances, Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction after all.

So by his own admission, the September 2002 dossier, which scared us into believing not only that Saddam Hussein had WMD but that he could unleash them with 45 minutes, was wrong. By his own admission, the February 2003 dossier was a farago of nonsense. An...

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