but with respect, in his private office, a secondary state they would ve read these papers. i would have scribbled on them late at night. these are very perceptive and that would have been transferred from an official note from a private secretary. that does not mean i endorse the policy within those papers. i was curious to get back to the second paper pricing regime change can t be an object is. of the prime minister. i was not only my view, but it couldn t be. you said that he would out in your own device. so your voice has gone to the prime minister, saying can t be regime change. and many see it paperthin yesterday exploring it. without seeing the documents and i m perfectly happy since you a supplementary note, we were going to have a textual of what they put on them. if you ve ever seen how you ve heard evidence from me on the issue of regime change. i don t think what point to a single occasion where it departed from the very clear view. that s precisely wha
march could several months after? i think i was aware of that. you know, it certainly would have been possible. there is no doubt about that. it was a sort of combination of factors. lord boyce, former chief of defense staff, confirmed to us last week that the u.k. had become such a significant component of the front line forces, 30% of the main battle tanks, that the americans would have had significant difficulties, certainly delay in their ability to start military operations if we had pulled out. but obviously raises the question of the degree of leverage we had. again, were you aware of the growing dependence of the americans on the u.k. front line forces? yes, i was. of course, that followed in part from the decisions of the government of turkey not to allow any troop movements through turkey. so that closed of that route which would have made a very different strategy. i was aware of that and and also goes to my point that if there had been compliance of 1441 not
health care, there are millions of families that now are beginning to be able to include within their own health care plans their sons and daughters up to the age of 26. goodbye to that. furthermore, in a nation which ends up spending more on health care almost double per person compared to any other nation on earth, we have put in the health care reform bill billions of dollars for disease prevention. we are as a nation very weak in terms of trying to keep people healthy, trying to keep them out of the hospital. we spend a fortune on people after they re sick. in this bill, we have made some significant steps forward in terms of disease prevention. wellness, which is very, very cost-effective in terms of health care dollars, not to mention not to mention human pain and suffering. in that regard, i m proud to have worked with a number of other senators in doubling in that bill the number of community health centers in america which was providing the most cost-effective
former british prime minister, tony blair, appeared a second time to talk about discrepancies from his previous he suggested mr. blair was aware of warnings concerning the legality of the invasion in iraq and discussions on how to deal with saddam hussein. you ll hear the former prime minister defend his actions leading up to the war. i should like to start by welcoming our witness, and those who joined us at the conference today as well as those who may be watching the hearing either on television or through the internet. we heard some six hours of evident a year ago and many other witnesses and have a mast a many considerable body of evidence. as i made clear in launching this round of hearings, there are a number of areas we have to clarify what happened. we need to find the lessons to be learned, and to do that, we need to construct as reliable and accurate account as possible and reach our own conclusions. this morning, we want to concentrate on a number of issues
it pretty good. about .5-inch of rain per hour. pretty standard through the east bay as well. san leandro getting quite a bit of rain. san fransisco downtown .25-inch of rain an hour. walnut creek getting about a third of an inch of rain an hour. rainfall rates not too terrible but wind gusts to 28. wind speeds at 20 right now. let s look at the wind speeds bay areawide. plenty of 20s on the board there. 23 in oakland. 20 in hayward. that s why we have the wind advisory in effect. gusty winds expected to last through the overnight hours. 20-30 mile-an-hour winds will be steady and gusts higher. that s going to continue until early tomorrow morning. we ll also be seeing rain out there early tomorrow morning. we ll talk about it coming up. all right. thank you. as the rain continues to fall here in san fransisco, gathering a minor flood north of caesar chavez. the water getting deep there. be careful as hydroplaning a real problem on the roadways. and we re live where the fla