Smoking guns

One of the main items that that will come under scrutiny at the Iraq Inquiry will be the role that the government's communications machine played in the decision to take the country to war in 2003.

The alleged 'sexing up' of the dossier, on which the case to go to war was made, culminated in the suicide of the government's own weapons adviser, Dr David Kelly, in 2004.

Celebrity Burnley FC fan and 'terror of Fleet Street' Alistair Campbell's name will hopefully appear on the witness list.

Despite the repeated denials made at public speaking engagements, the distinct whiff of making stuff up still hangs over those days of the run up to war.

The smoking gun was never found, that much we know. We might be about to find out whether the powers that be knew it wasn't ever going to be found.

Should be an interesting journey.

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