Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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The critics of Mr Blair will make much of this e-mail, but it is important to point out that the dossier never suggested that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. Mr Blair's foreword to the September 24 dossier was quite cautious in this regard.

"It said Saddam Hussein was a threat to world peace, but it stopped short of saying he was an imminent threat. Blair did not go beyond what was in the dossier and he did take account of the fact that there was nothing to suggest imminence