Personally, having hung around the MOD for a few years after I retired, I cannot bring myself to believe that Blair, Straw and Hoon could conspire to pull the wool over the public's eyes in order to curry favour with Bush and get away with it. There are just too many men of the highest integrity they would have to take with them for such a ploy to succeed.
Just having watched
All the presidents men on TV last night you'd be amazed at what susposedly honest men would do if they think they can get away with it.
Since were all providing quote how about this
People with intelligence will use it to fashion things both true and false and will try to push through whatever they want with their clever reasoning. This is injury from intelligence.
Nothing you do will have effect if you do not use truth.