When Campbell and the other deplorables were advising Blair about Iraq, they used something they found on the internet. Most of the document was written by a graduate student called al-Marashi and cobbled together with bits & bobs from various unattributed sources.
The lie that they put out at the time was unbelievable. The urgency in taking action, we were told, is because Hussein has the ability to launch missiles that can reach the UK within 45 minutes. This was reported by all our journalists; I dont remember seeing any one of these educated persons write a piece saying what a load of crap, except Gilligan.
I did not believe that missiles could reach us in 45 mins and I know fuck-all about such matters, except at the back of my mind I did remember reading something about ETAs if a nation were to launch an attack on UK (unrelated to Iraq).
How come these educated journalists did not query that? I knew, even next door's cat knew but they didnt. How can that be?
There is a group of doctors, the Frost group, who are still trying to get the David Kelly case reopened. It might happen, afterall it took 23 yrs to see justice done for Hillsborough.
"David Kelly's death certificate states that he died from loss of blood. But nine letter-writing doctors, who included some with expertise in vascular surgery and forensic medicine, challenged that verdict. The blood vessel served was the ulnar artery, the second in the wrist, which one of them described as the width of a matchstick. To die from a haemorrhage Dr Kelly would have had to lose 2,700ml (almost five pints) of blood. "It was impossible for 2,700ml of blood to have been lost through this small artery," the doctors wrote. Moreover, they added, the artery would probably have retracted on being severed and clotting would have ceased the flow."