Comments on: Lord Butler Report on British Intelligence

By: butler report official homepage

butler report official homepage — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:57:00 +0000

Please note that the OFFICIAL website for the Butler report is at http://www.butlerreview.org

This is NOT to be confused with the tasteless spoof website at http://www.butlerreview.org.uk

Legal action is currently being taken against the unscrupulous individuals who are illegally cybersquatting the latter domain name.

Sincerely,
Barmy Buffingham-Phipps,
Secretary to the Butler Review

By: George Johnston

George Johnston — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:44:43 +0000

Apparently this is one Lord that Shrubya doesn’t listen to.

By: NTodd

NTodd — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:17:14 +0000

Lord Butler was misquoted. He said, “Go pound sand.”

By: Tom Maguire

Tom Maguire — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:51:28 +0000

Good job, but Sadly, where? The BBC is notorious for revising posted stories, so I am not blaming you, but I can’t find either of these points you mentioned:

Assessments that Iraq sought uranium from Africa were “well founded”.

or:

Our favorite Lord Butler quote:

Iraq is a very big place, there’s a lot of sand. [...] It’s wrong … to reach the conclusion that no stocks of agents will ever be found.

I’m sure it was there in that story once (and maybe will be again). Or is there some link I am missing?

I also see that the BBC site links to the Butler report itself, so happy hunting.

Hmm, they also have a side link that leads to this:

Uranium from Niger

British intelligence on the claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger was “credible”. There was not conclusive evidence Iraq actually purchased the material, nor did the government make that claim.

We’ll see how long that link holds up – the joy of excerpting the BBC!