Arab Times Online is reporting that Hans Blix, in his most strongly worded statement to date, claims that Bush and Blair well, exaggerated the case for war. Knowingly.

Blix says it was "probable that the governments were conscious that they were exaggerating the risks they saw in order to get the political support they would not otherwise have had." In an interview from Stockholm, Blix highlighted the now discredited British claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed within 45 minutes.

"They must have had a half-conscious idea that this was perhaps a bit of exaggeration ... The aim of it I think was to create an impression in the reader that they were faced with something very ominous," he said by telephone. "If they had been more critical of the evidence they saw, I think that they should have put some question marks rather than the exclamation marks that they did," he said. [snip]

"I am not suggesting that Blair and Bush spoke in bad faith, but I am suggesting that it would not have taken much critical thinking on their own part or the part of their close advisers to prevent statements that misled the public," he writes. "It is understood and accepted that governments must simplify complex international matters in explaining them to the public in democratic states. "However they are not vendors of merchandise but leaders of whom some sincerity should be asked when they exercise their responsibility for war and peace in the world."[snip]

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