Short: 'Blair duped us all along. We were misled. We were deceived' Former minister launches ferocious attack over missing weapons of mass destruction

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

CLARE SHORT, the former International Development Secretary, last night accused Tony Blair of "duping" the nation over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to drive Britain to war against Saddam Hussein.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Ms Short, who resigned from the Cabinet on May 12, said: "I have concluded that the PM had decided to go to war in August sometime and he duped us all along. He had decided for reasons that he alone knows to go to war over Iraq and to create this sense of urgency and drive it: the way the intelligence was spun was part of that drive.

"There was ...

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