In Our BULLSHIT BY THE BRITS Section, This is today's winner:
BBC NEWS | Politics | Straw withdraws 45 minutes claim: "Jack Straw has told MPs the claim Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes has been officially withdrawn.
The claim was at the heart of an unprecedented row between the BBC and the government which led to the death of David Kelly and the Hutton inquiry.
But Mr Straw insisted that 'even with hindsight' knowing that Saddam had not had WMD, the war had been right.
He said there was evidence Iraq was trying to restart weapons programmes.
Apology call
Mr Straw, UK foreign secretary, said: 'The Butler committee concluded that the validity of the line of reporting which included the 45-minute intelligence had come into question.'
He added 'the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service has written to the Intelligence and Security Committee formally withdrawing' it.
But he told MPs in the Commons: 'I do not accept, even with hindsight, that we were wrong to act as we did.' "
The claim was at the heart of an unprecedented row between the BBC and the government which led to the death of David Kelly and the Hutton inquiry.
But Mr Straw insisted that 'even with hindsight' knowing that Saddam had not had WMD, the war had been right.
He said there was evidence Iraq was trying to restart weapons programmes.
Apology call
Mr Straw, UK foreign secretary, said: 'The Butler committee concluded that the validity of the line of reporting which included the 45-minute intelligence had come into question.'
He added 'the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service has written to the Intelligence and Security Committee formally withdrawing' it.
But he told MPs in the Commons: 'I do not accept, even with hindsight, that we were wrong to act as we did.' "
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