Brian Cloughley: Never Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History: "In his Christmas message to British occupation troops in Iraq, Tony Blair, Britain's leader of the governing Labour Party assured them that there was 'massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories' in Iraq. Blair again made a fool of himself, and it is interesting to examine the vulgar, shoddy affair of the phantom laboratories in the context of what politicians and officials imagine they can get away with in misleading their unfortunate public."

Brian Cloughley: Never Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History: "In his Christmas message to British occupation troops in Iraq, Tony Blair, Britain's leader of the governing Labour Party assured them that there was 'massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories' in Iraq. Blair again made a fool of himself, and it is interesting to examine the vulgar, shoddy affair of the phantom laboratories in the context of what politicians and officials imagine they can get away with in misleading their unfortunate public."