Gordon Brown admits evidence at Iraq Inquiry was wrong

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Source: Times Online

Gordon Brown was today forced into a humiliating retreat in his battle against retired generals who accuse him of giving disingenuous evidence on military funding to the Iraq Inquiry.

The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that he now accepted that his evidence had been wrong. He admitted that defence spending “did not rise in real terms” in every year under the Labour government and said he had written to Sir John Chilcot to clarify his controversial claims.

Throughout his testimony, Mr Brown repeatedly insisted that military spending had increased in every year since 1997 and claimed that every urgent operational request was met immediately.

His claims were greeted by incredulity amongst retired generals including the former Chief of Defence Staff General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and former defence chief, Admiral Lord Boyce. They accused him of giving deliberately misleading evidence to the inquiry.


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7065405.ece

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He basically lied about providing for their troops adequately. Lied, right before an election. He learned well from his masters, didn't he?

[Blackhatjack]

1. IF there were any justice, Bush would be making such a statement to Congress about No WMDs...

But we live in a land where the Bush Administration will not be held responsible for some of the most abhorent behavior in history.