SMOKING GUN: The 45-Minute Claim Was a Collusion between Bush and Blair

Cheryl Seal | 11.02.2004 16:14 | London | World

Without the 45-minute WMD deployment claim made by Blair, it is highly unlikely the UK and the US would have been duped into going to war. Now, as the heat goes up, the White House and Downing St. seem desperate to bury the evidence and cover their tracks...tracks that lead to a collusion between Bush and Blair.

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

Cheryl Seal

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Shutup

11.02.2004 21:24

SHUTUP. WE CAN MAKE UP ARE OWN MINDS ON EVENTS IN THE NEWS! Its bad enough the government doing it - your just as bad. Not even any evidence to back up your primitive arguments. I don't neccesarily disagree with your view, its just a crap article - just like all your others. Its opinionated bollocks. You even put your name in the title of some of your articles as to say 'its the great writer - me Cheryl, come and read my propaganda, because your can't make up your own mind'. Do us all a favour and shut your mouth, so we can hear some people who can back up their arguments and write in a coherent manner.

Serious Roy

Roy's Right - SHUT UP CHERYL

11.02.2004 21:28

A few hyperlinks, just won't do it these days. You have to intergrate it into your argument. How many people actually bother to click on the hyperlinks. I would agree with roy, every article you do is a rant, with some descriptive words to make it look like fact. Its garbage. Das ist Müll.

Mr Motivator

.. who the fuck ...

11.02.2004 23:45

... are you two anyway, and what exactly is it that you have to contribute?

jackslucid
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jesus jack's right

12.02.2004 01:01

people do seem to be laying in to cheryl these days...

I wonder if the two posters are American by any chance?

go...go...
cheryl seal
we are with you...
'cos you're real...

F**k these spooks
hired gooks
American eagle eye
counter intelligence
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whoever you are
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can't dictate the rules...
we seen through you
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Captain Wardrobe

Fuck Off - Yourself

12.02.2004 18:35

Me - Mr Motivator

I agree with Cheryl's comment's, but they weren't very well presented. There was no evidence in the article itself. I wouldn't be suprised if Captain Wardrobe is in fact Cheryl. She in fact neither comments on her 'articles'. Her story is as much 'news' as the cheeky girls are heavy metal.

And by the way, an answer to the question - Who the fuck are you? I have been teaching people to keep fit, on TV and on aeroplanes for yeahs.

Mr Motivator

It wasn't just Iraqi weapons of mass destruction which were central to war!

13.02.2004 16:15

It wasn't just the Iraqi regimes weapons of mass destruction which were central to war but other things like the Iraqi regimes links to Al Qaeda and its appalling human rights record. The three main demands made on Iraq were that it was to destroy all its weapons of mass destruction, sever links with Al Qaeda and improve its human rights records. Even if Iraq had no WMD war would still have been justified on the two other grounds!

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