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However, the scale of backing for it, as anti-war demonstrators protested outside Parliament, was far more than Government ministers had feared.
Senior parliamentarians, including Tory grandees John Gummer, Kenneth Clarke and Douglas Hogg and Labour former Cabinet ministers Frank Dobson and Chris Smith, were among those who believed weapons inspectors should be given more time to disarm Saddam.
After the amendment was defeated, the Government s motion was approved by 434 votes to 124, majority 310, with 59 Labour MPs again voting against a three-line whip.
Leading the rebellion, Mr Smith warned that if MPs backed the Government it would signal that they endorsed a timetable that leads “inexorably to war within the next three to four weeks.”
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As the famous quote commonly attributed to US writer Mark Twain goes: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that while the case for the 2003 Iraq war has been largely discredited, an unnerving amount of propaganda spread by the US and UK governments at the time still has some purchase today.
For example, Gerd Nonneman, Professor of International Relations and Gulf Studies at Georgetown University Qatar, recently tweeted about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): “Saddam’s aim was to keep everyone at home & abroad guessing.” Similarly, a November Financial Times review by Chief Political Correspondent Philip Stephens of two books on UK intelligence matters noted the then Iraqi leader “believed his domestic authority in Iraq rested on a pretence that he still had WMD.”
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