Blair WMD claim a 'red herring', says Bremer

Blair WMD claim a 'red herring', says Bremer

America's top man in Iraq pours scorn on PM's allegation

Sarah Hall, Richard Norton-Taylor and Luke Harding
Monday December 29, 2003
The Guardian

Tony Blair faced fresh allegations yesterday that he had "sexed up" an official report into Saddam Hussein's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction after the US official running Iraq dismissed out of hand his latest controversial claim.

The Conservatives said Mr Blair's assertion, made to British troops in mid-December, that there was "massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories" was a piece of "sexed-up information" uttered "to save his skin".

The renewed attacks came after Paul Bremer, the head of the coalition provisional authority in Baghdad, dismissed Mr Blair's claim as a "red herring". (snip)

(snip) Yesterday Mr Bremer, unaware the comment had been made by the prime minister, said it was untrue and suggested it was a "red herring" put about by someone opposed to military action to undermine the coalition.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1113536,00.html

A few investigative pieces on Bush like Blair gets regularly, and we could have a HUGE party :cry:

Stupid fool should have seen the writing on the wall before he got involved with *. I had great hopes for Blair at one point, but, as so many others before him, he has become just another * pawn, expendable.

The reporter gave Bremer the quote without telling him who made it--then after Bremer calls it a "red herring" tells him it was Blair! Bremer then backpeddles as fast as he can, knowing the damage has been done. Wow--where do we get one of those reporters, we really could use a few of them over here.

It's real nice to have a quote from Paul Bremer saying all the WoMD claims are garbage.

:eyes: I thought he was bush poodle .

I suspect Bremer will find himself to be expendable soon enough, as well. When one neo-con bureaucrat falls, another will rise to take its place.