BLAIR'S WAR: How One Man Deed Logic and Intelligence to Take Us to War ; All around Him People Have Lost Their Heads. Cook Went, Short Followed. Campbell Has Gone, Hoon Should Be Next. Now the Latest Revelations about the September Dossier on Iraq's WMD Have Put Tony Blair in the Frame. but Still He Clings on to His Increasingly Shaky Version of History. Andy McSmith Reports

One year ago this month, the nation was treated to a publishing event, the political equivalent to the launch of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with the difference that a book by JK Rowling is never meant to be anything but a fantasy for people with innocent minds, whereas Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction - The Assessment of the British Government, published on 24 September 2002, was intended to be a serious work with a serious purpose, and most readers began from the assumption that it was all true.

Its seriousness was underlined by the multi-million-pound operation behind it. Its compilation required months of meetings involving intelligence officers, …

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Publication information: Article title: BLAIR'S WAR: How One Man Deed Logic and Intelligence to Take Us to War ; All around Him People Have Lost Their Heads. Cook Went, Short Followed. Campbell Has Gone, Hoon Should Be Next. Now the Latest Revelations about the September Dossier on Iraq's WMD Have Put Tony Blair in the Frame. but Still He Clings on to His Increasingly Shaky Version of History. Andy McSmith Reports. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England). Publication date: September 14, 2003. Page number: 10,11. © 2009 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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