The British Public Rejects The Hutton Report

‘BLAIR NOT TO BE TRUSTED’
After the publication of the Hutton Report into the events surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, polls showed that more people in Britain believed their Prime Minister had lied about his role in the affair than believed he had told the truth, and there was less rather than more support for the war against Iraq.

This was despite the fact that Lord Hutton’s report exonerated Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon, Alistair Campbell and the British Government in general of any wrong-doing. In particular, Hutton focussed on whether the Government had contributed to Dr Kelly’s death by leaking his name to the media as the source for Andrew Gilligan’s critical report broadcast on BBC radio’s ‘Today’ programme on 29 May 2003.

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Kathy Kelly
Voices in The Wilderness
Baghdad

Recently, George Capaccio sent me observations sent to him by “a friend of a friend.” I sent them on to Ahmed Kharrufa. Ahmed has been sending letters from Baghdad since the Occupation began. When I arrived in Baghdad last summer he and his family befriended Cathy Breen and I. Here is Ahmed’s response to the observations.

Dear George,

Kathy asked me to give some comments to the letter you’ve forwarded her. I feel flattered that Kathy trusted my judgment that much, and I hope that I am worthy of her trust. I’ll do my best to comment on each point as accurately as possible.

But let me tell you very little about myself so that you can better evaluate my comments. I work in a private company and not for the government. I don’t have financial problems. And I never personally had a problem with the old regime (which does not mean that I wanted it to stay, on the contrary, having the old regime gone is the only good thing that has happened). And I have no relation whatsoever to any of the old or the new parties. So my comments reflects the way as I see things, which is hopefully correct and unbiased.

So below are my comments for each point in the letter.