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BLAIR MAD AS A HATTER

[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20040706/ap_on_re_eu/britain_blair[/url]

Blair Admits Friction in Bush Relationship By ED JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer LONDON Blair used his sharpest language yet in the long-standing disagreement over the Bush administration's detentions at the U.S. Navy (news - web sites) base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying they "must end." And the British leader said it was likely weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq (news - web sites). 1…"I have to accept that we have not found them, that we may not find them," Blair told the House of Commons Liaison Committee. "We do not know what has happened to them. They could have been removed, they could have been hidden, they could have been destroyed." Blair rejected any suggestion that the stockpiles never existed and that Saddam had not been a danger to the world. 2. "To go to the opposite extreme and say therefore no threat existed from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) would be a mistake," he said.

1. The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice, Your Majesty must cross-examine this witness.'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy air, and, after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, What are tarts made of?'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook. Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of they jurymen.No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, and that's the queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King. (The jury all brightened up again.) Please your Majesty,' said the Knave,I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.' If you didn't sign it,' said the King,that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like an honest man.' There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day. That proves his guilt,' said the Queen.It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. …BUT THIS ISN’T ALL

2. When confronted with the fact that he may have predicated policy, lives, Britain’s reputation and historical accumulation of good will on his relation to Bush on non-existent objects (“Where did all the Unicorns go?” “Who stole my strawberries?”), he of course cannot look that head on in the face. So he cops the expression “opposite extreme” – calls it “wrong” (extremes are always wrong when your reality depends on public opinion, and so he knows he is very much in the wrong here, with approval ratings in the teens) – then STIPULATES SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY – “NO THREAT AT ALL” IS NOT THE SAME AS NOT HAVING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.” And, to be specific, what threat does he mean to refer to now?

Mad as a hatter, and who wouldn’t be. Reality can never be for them, anymore. No one could face what they did and remain sane.

(Today’s NY Times 7.6.04 contains article stating the CIA had specific information that the biological threat never existed, the program was dead after ’91, but it got suppressed.)

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/politics/06INTE.html[/url]

INTELLIGENCE C.I.A. Held Back Iraqi Arms Data, Officials Say By JAMES RISEN

Published: July 6, 2004

ASHINGTON, July 5 — The Central Intelligence Agency was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists before the war that Baghdad's programs to develop unconventional weapons had been abandoned, but the C.I.A. failed to give that information to President Bush, even as he publicly warned of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's illicit weapons, according to government officials. The existence of a secret prewar C.I.A. operation to debrief relatives of Iraqi scientists — and the agency's failure to give their statements to the president and other policymakers — has been uncovered by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The panel has been investigating the government's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons and plans to release a wide-ranging report this week on the first phase of its inquiry. The report is expected to contain a scathing indictment of the C.I.A. and its leaders for failing to recognize that the evidence they had collected did not justify their assessment that Mr. Hussein had illicit weapons. …..