I was going to write about this, then noticed an avid and interesting conversation on flambingo.net, where Anno was writing about this over a month ago.
Some other points of view - Guardian interview with Ms Gun, BBC coverage, Independent - questions case for war; full text of email from the Observer.
Then this morning, there was that interview with Clare Short, revealing spying on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on the Today programme. The Today programme site has audio files and further coverage. Channel 4 news tonight have an interview with Clare Short tonight, which sounds electric.
Iraq war: February 2004 Archives
Listening to Hoon this morning on the Today programme had me shouting at the radio again. The sheer cheek of the man to claim that he did not know the headline of the highest circulation news paper in the country, was unbelievable. He must have a media department in his ministry and the Sun is a reckoner for the mood of the nation, for better or worse.
"The first time I saw that (Sun newspaper 45-minute) headline was very recently watching a Panorama programme": Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon talks to John at 0810. Also, Reeta Chakrabarti at 0856 on what Mr Hoon told the Hutton Inquiry."
He claimed that the 45 minute claim and the delivery mechanism was essentially immaterial "not a matter of great public contravercy" to the case for war and tried unsuccessfully to connect the conventional ballistic missiles that were found to the case for war, they were a contravention of 1441, but are not WMD. Then tried to claim that a battlefield mortar was a WMD.
Just as the programme was closing, his words in reference to a question about the banner headlines on the day of publication of the dossier from the Hutton Inquiry were played on air, "I can recall, yes".
