ABSTRACT
In his “Foreword” to the September 2002 document Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government1, Tony Blair made the following assertions:
What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons, and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme . . . I am in no doubt that the threat is serious and current, that he has made progress on WMD and that he has to be stopped . . . And the document discloses that his military planning allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them.
