Goldsmith faces calls to resign over Iraq

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The Independent
By Colin Brown and Marie Woolf
14 October 2004


The attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, faced calls to resign last night as Tony Blair's legal justification for going to war against Iraq began to unravel.

The Prime Minister once again refused calls yesterday to apologise for the Iraq conflict as some of his own backbenchers questioned whether he had misrepresented intelligence and gone to war illegally.

MPs said the "facts" about weapons of mass destruction on which the Government based its legal justification for war had been completely demolished by the Iraq Survey Group, which found there were no stockpiles.

A senior figure on the Butler inquiry into the intelligence failings over Iraq told The Independent that Lord Goldsmith "should consider his position" after the withdrawal of the intelligence claims that Saddam could ready weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes.
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1. Go Parliament! Show us how to do it! n/t