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Blair 'exercised spin' to justify Iraq war, says chief weapons inspector

Daily Mail

The British Government replaced question marks in its Iraq war dossier with exclamation marks, claims Hans Blix
Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix accused Tony Blair today of "exercising spin" in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

Mr Blix told Sky News that the Prime Minister and those involved in compiling the Government's dossier on Iraq which was used to justify the war had "exercised spin", replacing question marks with exclamation marks.

Asked if Mr Blair had acted in bad faith, he said: "I do think they exercised spin. They put exclamation marks instead of question marks.

"There were question marks but they changed them to exclamation marks. And I think they got the political punishment for that.

"They lost a lot of confidence. Both Bush and Blair lost a lot of confidence."

He said the war was "clearly illegal", ...More...