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Iraq: 20 Years On | The Road to War
Intelligence Squared
The Dodgy Dossier Was Put Together Under Alice De Camels Leadership
We were given a dodgy dossier, which Downing Street put together of trying to explain the case for war. It started implying it was going to be nuclear and explosion over London in 45 minutes. That was all just completely made up. Lots of decent people believed it, of course. But they knew that they were spinning us into the war. They told all sorts of untruths to get us there. And when they couldn't get the agreement of other countries in the UN, they then twisted that. In the end, he was more desperate to go with America than use his power to get a more considered outcome.
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