come_the_day said:
Seadog said:
Your sequence of events and cause and effect are a travesty JG. Suck back now, not after Christmas. Your posts on the subject won't stand much longer without your retraction. Those quoting it without contradicting it will also be deleted.
Hey, this new mod is a pain in the neck. No more posts from me.
Between April and June 2002 on the orders of Mr. Bliar and Alastair Campbell the Foreign Office began to assemble a dossier to prove the existence of WMD in Iraq. This was vital in order to help justify the long-planned illegal attack on a sovereign nation. This dossier had substantial input from Doctor Kelly.
Remember Doctor Kelly's job-title; Special Adviser to the Director of Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control - Ministery of Defence. He was a world-class microbiologist and an expert on Iraq.
On September 5th 2002 the dossier was re-written, again at the insistance of Bliar and Campbell. Why? Because the dossier had indicated precisely the opposite judgement. Saddam Hussein had no WMD and was not judged to be a threat. This is precisely what has just been verified by Carne Ross. It also echoes the words of Sir Richard Dearlove MI6 who said that "intelligence was being fixed around policy" by Bliar.
The re-written dossier was reviewed by Doctor Kelly in an attempt to get his buy-in and agreement; however he continued to strongly disagree with its contents particularly the 'imminent threat' allegations.
On September 24th 2002 Mr. Bliar addressed the House of Parliament; brandishing the dossier and almost shouting " The threats of Saddam and weapons of mass destruction is not American or British propaganda. The history and present threat are real".
Many people suspected at that time that these allegations were lies. As he stood before parliament on September 24th 2002 Mr. Bliar knew that they were lies. We now know that Mr. Bliar took the British people for a ride. Every death and every injury to our servicemen and women in Iraq are directly attributable to these lies.
The exposure of Doctor Kelly by the MOD led to his death. In August 2003 Bliar testified to Hutton that he was responsible for the decision making process that led to Doctor Kelly being exposed. He had consistantly lied about his involvement up until this point.
The Hutton Inquiry itself was a peculiarly British cover-up and not many people realised at the time exactly what was going on; particularly since most media coverage focused on the war, Doctor Kelly's death and the forced resignation of the Director General and the Chairman of the BBC.
The announcement that Lord Brian Hutton would lead an inquiry was made with great fanfare but it was actually a shrewd and very cynical move made to avoid an inquest into Doctor Kelly's death.
The Hutton Inquiry was timed perfectly to abort a Coroner's Inquiry and this is how the fix was made. In English Common Law a Coroner's Court is required to prove a suicide beyond a reasonable doubt.
Reasonable doubt. It does this by empowering a jury, issuing subpoenas, gathering evidence and requiring any evidence to be given under oath.
Hutton took over the role of the Coroner's Court with none of the checks and balances required under Common Law. The inquiry was finessed, questions left unasked, witnesses ignored and secret photographs reviewed in camera. Eminent doctors who disputed the cause of death were denied the opportunity to testify. The coroner who could have convened a court within 28 days of the completion of the Hutton Inquiry did not do so. He later stated that he regretted this.
The circumstances of Doctor Kelly's death were never investigated adequately and powerful people went to great lengths to cover evidence up. Hutton was simply the smokescreen that let Bliar wriggle away.
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