NO ONE TO BLAME – SAYS DOUBLE DUTCH -LORD BUTLER
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DAILY
MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 15,2004
‘Sir
Humphrey would have been proud of you, Lord B.’
His
language and elliptical phrases were straight from the script of Yes, Minister. Here, with apologies to Sir Humphrey’s everywhere, the Mail gives its own
interpretation of what Lord Butler really meant.
ON THE INTELLIGENCE
WHAT
HE SAID:
‘In the run-up to war’ more credence was given to untried
agents than would normally be the case’.
WHAT HE MEANT:
‘Mr Blair justified the
war on the basis of third hand gossip from disaffected and untrustworthy Iraq
troublemakers.’
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WHAT HE SAID:
‘There has probably never been a period in peacetime when intelligence
work has been more difficult’.
WHAT HE MEANT:
‘Our MI6 spooks have been
shamefully embarrassed.’
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WHAT HE SAID:
‘The British Government,
as well as being influenced by the concerns of the US Government, saw a need
for immediate action on Iraq because of the wider historical and International
context.’
WHAT HE MEANT:
‘ ‘Tony
“Poodle” Blair was willing to go along with whatever his Whitehouse chum
“Dubya” wanted.’
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ON THE DOSSIER:
‘WHAT HE SAID:
‘The judgments in the dossier went to (although not beyond) the outer
limits of the Intelligence available.’
WHAT HE MEANT:
‘The dossier was a dodgy as a door –to-door double-glazing
salesman.’
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WHAT
HE SAID:
‘Language in the dossier and used by the PM may have
left readers with the impression that there was fuller and firmer Intelligence
than was the case.’
WHAT
HE MEANT:
‘
Alastair Campbell’s version of what intelligence chiefs had told him could have
won the Booker Prise for Fiction.’
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WHAT
HE SAID:
‘ Responsibility for the dossier’ put a strain on the Joint
Intelligence Committee in ‘seeking to maintain their normal standards of
neutral and objective assessment.’
WHAT
HE MEANT:
‘The
Committee had a gun held to their heads to come up with evidence, no matter how
spurious, to justify war.’
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ON
THE 45-MINUTE THREAT
WHAT
HE SAID:
‘There
were ‘suspicions’ this was only included because of its ‘eye-catching
character.’
WHAT
HE MEANT:
‘ ‘The claim was sexed- up to inspire
newspaper headlines which would create widespread panic and fear of Saddam.’
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ON
JOHN SCARLETT
WHAT
HE SAID:
‘We
greatly hope he will not (resign). We have a high regard for his abilities and
his record.’
WHAT
HE MEANT:
‘
We Establishment chaps always look after our own.’
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ON
THE DOWNING ST MACHINE
WHAT
HE SAID:
‘THE
INFORMALITY AND CIRCUMSCRIBED CHARACTER OF THE GOVERNMENT’S PROCEDURES… RISKED
REDUCING THE SCOPE FOR INFORMED COLLECTIVE POLITICAL JUDGMENT.’
WHAT
HE MEANT:
‘
THE PRIME MINISTER IGNORED ALL TRADITIONS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT:
PARLIAMENT WAS BYPASSED, THE CABINET WAS REDUCED TO A RUBBER STAMP AND THE
ADMINISTRATION WAS RUN BY A CABAL OF TONY’S CRONIES.’
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MoD - obtains
almost half the COST of the
Iraq War and
Afghanistan
selling Army land - barracks-hospitals.July
2007
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