Blair used the 45 minute story to illustrate his point about why we should enter a war with Saddam, then afterwards told the media he was not interested enough to find out what the 45 minute story referred to (an unreliable story about chemical shells). That he was not interested enough to inform himself about the nature of the intelligence he was using to persuade us of the rightness of his cause is impossible to believe, it is just not creditable. A leader who lies to his own side and gets found out should go.
Besides the man has a history of lying, this is just one instance in a long line of instances.
Iraq is a mess, 2 million have fled the country. The idea that the Sunni, Shia and Kurds can live in a single democracy is as dotty as the idea that the EU is a democracy. Blair believes in both because he does not, and never has understood the meaning of accountability to an electorate.
