As Shakespeare said, "Me thinks [they] doth protest too much."

In just one week, the White House (Rumsfeld as spokesman) and Tony Blair have made outrageous assertions about the 45-minute WMD deployment claim that was CENTRAL to their case for war. Here are the two story synopses (re Rummy and Blair's protestations) with my take:


Thousands Have Died Because of 45-Min WMD Claim - Yet Blair Says It was All Just a Big Mix up


Blair can now join the ranks of the truly slimey corporazis like Ken Lay who slither off the hook for their crimes against humanity by claiming either ignorance or loss of memory. In an extraordinarily obvious continuing collusion between Downing St. and the White House, Tony Blair and Rumsfeld made statements within a one-week period claiming 1. Loss of memory (Rummy) and 2. Ignorance (Blair) re: the 45-minute claim. Yet this claim was the MOST IMPORTANT PRETEXT FOR WAR. Without it, Congress may not have granted Bush emergency war powers and Parliament most certainly would not have voted to support the war (as many have since said). We say the 45-minute claim was a coooked up collusion between Downing St. and the White House - the smoking gun Blair and Bush are desperate to bury.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3460517.stm

At the Heart of the Bush Lie: the 45-Minute WMD Claim that Rummy Says He 'Can't Remember'

Why did Rummy deny at a 2/10 press conference that he was aware of Blair's much-touted 45-minute WMD claim? Could it be because this claim is CENTRAL to the Bush-Blair Iraq war collusion and the hottest smoking gun of all? Afterall, without this claim, we doubt Congress would have voted to authorize "emergency war powers" to Bush (who, of course, promptly abused that power). And to be convincing, the claim had to come from Blair, not Bush. Now, with the heat on, Rummy's doing what corporazi do best when cornerd: claim loss of memory (remember Jeffrey Skillings and Ken Lay?). This BBC report points out that the 45-minute claim wasn't just a whisper - it made BANNER HEADLINES around the world. But Rummy can't recall.....

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3478051.stm

You watch - the UK "posting moles" will be out in force ...I expect at least a few "love notes" from "Sceptic" and the rest of the gang. Go to it, boys! It won't keep your ship (the SS. BushBlair) from sinking