Them's fightin' words!
In The good 'ole UK, Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith lost his cool yesterday; essentially tagging the embattled PM as a liar. Duncan Smith got pissed with Blair during heated debate in the Commons over the allegedly "sexed up" intelligence dossiers on Iraq's WMDs.
When Blair claimed that the "intelligence" had been shared with Duncan Smith; the Tory leader responded, "You know I was given no sight of that dossier. I wasn't even contacted about it. "The first I knew about that dossier in February was when I found it in the newspapers. So you can retract that for a start! Until you accept that you misrepresented the status of the second dossier to Parliament and apologise, your trust will plummet and nobody will believe a word you say." Read More...
Meanwhile back at the ranch...
The Beeb has told the Blair Administration where to stick it. The nasty row between the BBC and the Labour government is showing no sign of let up. The Corporation, while state owned, is independent and reported early on of the concerns being voiced by members of the British intelligence community that the Blair Administration was misleading the public.
Things only worsened for Labour this week when their staunch allies across the pond cavallierly admitted, this week, that assertions made by Bush in the 2003 January State of the Union Address that Iraq trying to purchase uranium from Africa were based on forged documents. Read More...
The Beeb says the govenment is trying to bully it and continues to stand by the correspondent at the centre of this firestorm, Andrew Gilligan; unequivically stating that there was no chance of a retraction.
Oh Canaduh...
Let's here it for your friendly neighbourhood dealer, er, pharmacist! Well, not exactly. Health Canada has decided that until told otherwise it's going into the pot business. The agency is charging $20 for 20 seeds or $150 for a 30-gram bag of dried weed.
Pending court appeal medical marijuana will be sold to the sick ONLY. This is, therefore, not a greenlight to all you potheads to head for the border; as police will continue to bust those who cultivate or deal the drug illegally. Read More...
posted by dorna! @ 4:26 am
