It's all falling apart for Blair now. But where's our equivalent? Why are we having secret meetings? Why do we have a press that still, still wants to believe that Bush wouldn't knowingly lie?
Cook gives first evidence to Iraq inquiry Tuesday June 17, 2003Former foreign secretary Robin Cook today dealt a series of devastating blows to the government's case for a war against Iraq, saying that it was "now clear that Saddam Hussein did not represent a 'clear and serious threat'".
Giving evidence to the foreign affairs select committee inquiry into the government's handling of the war - and the evidence used to back its case - Mr Cook cast doubt on both dossiers of evidence against the Iraqi leader, revealing that "Iraq was an appallingly difficult intelligence target to break".