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5 October 2007 - 7:01pm
It has long been a convention that a politican may not mislead or lie to the House of Commons. If he makes a mistake he must correct that mistake at the earliest opportunity. I think it is very regretable that this simple standard has of late slipped.
As to the point made regarding President Bush one has to say that the President did not lie in the statement he made. Intelligence reports - those that land on the Presidents desk and on the desk of the Prime Minister - are by their very nature composites and distillations from many different sources. The use of the word 'learned' would not have been incorrect in relation to the report upon which the President was drawing.
