ABSTRACT
In giving evidence to the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly,
Tony Blair had explained the case for war in Iraq in terms of the strength of
intelligence on Iraqi WMD:
What changed was really two things which came together. First of all,
there was a tremendous amount of information and evidence coming
across my desk as to the weapons of mass destruction and the pro-
grammes associated with it that Saddam had . . . There was also a renewed sense of urgency, again, in the way that this was being publicly
debated . . . Why did we say it was a big problem? Because of the intelligence. And the people were naturally saying: produce that intelligence
then . . . So, in a sense, the 24 September dossier was an unusual – the whole business was unusual, but it was in response to an unusual set of
circumstances. We were saying this issue had to be returned to by the
international community and dealt with. Why were we saying this?
