Blair and Bush Make Plan to Deal With WMD Issue

[MonstaThrilla]

Blair and Bush join forces to spin away weapons issue

Blair and Bush join forces to spin away weapons issue
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Raymond Whitaker in London

03 August 2003

The British and US governments are drawing up a controversial new strategy to convince the public that Saddam was developing weapons of mass destruction - an admission that they have so far failed to make a convincing case.

The "big impact" plan is designed to overwhelm and silence critics who have sought to put pressure on Tony Blair and George Bush. At the same time both men are working to lower the burden of proof - from finding weapons to finding evidence that there were programmes to develop them, even if they lay dormant since the 1980s.

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Officials say that WMD information is being collected and collated to create a "big impact". Both Downing Street and the White House are said to have learnt tough lessons from the experience of February's "dodgy dossier" on Iraq and the false claims about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium from Africa.

"Instead of just putting out pieces of a jigsaw and expecting people to see the picture, they are waiting until they have more pieces," said one official involved in the project. "They want to get it right." The authorities had learnt not to put out piecemeal information without proper verification, he added.

A presentation could be made as soon as September, with the aim of providing a boost to Mr Blair ahead of the Labour Party conference at the end of the month, and to Mr Bush as the presidential campaign gathers steam. Officials speak confidently of the hard evidence they claim has been gathered in Iraq since Saddam was ousted three months ago.

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Classic Karl Rove strategy...

 

[Czar]

always looks like they took a chance at finding something once they got in, instead of acting on some solid evidence they had before

 

[Tripleshot]

Spinning it now will not detract from the fact they lied about it already. Let the chips fall where they may. Just because the two are collaberating on a spin strategy will not save them from the onslaught of voters against them in the coming elections. This is just part of what is going to bring down Bush lite. He has to answer for the Enrons, the economy, the deficit, his environmental policies(or lack thereof) and his so called tax cuts that in effect have raised taxes at state level in the majority of states, and an overwhelming loss of jobs, larger than any in history, 9.5 million and still counting.

Bush can KMA.:lips:

 

[Tab]

Nobody can fix the economy, he make interests rates go as low as they want. He can't fix it, he can help it coming out of this slight depression.