The British dossier on Iraq will be posted at the following web site, followed by a webcast of Tony Blair's speech to Parliament:
<http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp> -----Original Message----- From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Blair's Dossier Tony Blair had his Cabinet meeting last night when he gave ministers the dossier on Saddam's WMDs. (This was a full Cabinet meeting and lasted for several hours. This is the first full, proper length, Cabinet meeting that I can recall in the whole of Blair's governments in the last six years.) Anyway, the dossier is due to be released this morning at 8.00am (in half-an-hour) so that MPs can debate the Iraq business in the House of Commons today. It is already being said that not much really secret information is in the dossier for fear of compromising sources within Iraq. I doubt that. I think that much really crucial information isn't in it because it doesn't exist. I think its weaknesses will be sossed out pretty quickly. (Karen, since you asked yesterday: "sossed out" means "worked out", "thought through", "exposed".) On the news this morning we hear that Gore is opposing Bush on the grounds that he is shaming America by breaking international law. Quite so. America is creating a precedent for its own destruction in due course if, as I expect, China becomes an equally strong power (as regards smart missile technology) in 10-15 years' time when it, too, needs Middle East oil and gas as badly as America already seems to need it now -- or at least trying to control it from now onwards and for the rest of the lifetime of those resources. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
