New evidence in the Dr. David Kelly affair over in the UK is proving that the Poodle may have more problems than he bargained for. It seems that David Kelly was not quite the "prevaricator" that the Poodle wanted everyone to belive he was, and his doubts about the Iraqis were taken more seriously than was first known. So, would that mean that the Poodle was responsible for the Lying Chimp lying? Seems highly likely.

The government's attempts to bolster its case for the war against Iraq suffered a heavy blow on the first day of the Hutton inquiry yesterday when it was revealed that unease about the dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme ran much deeper than Downing Street has claimed.
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Intelligence officials were sufficiently concerned about the wording of the dossier that they expressed worries to their superiors. Some said they were unhappy about the way it was claimed that Iraq could deploy some chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes of an order to do so - the claim at the heart of the row between No 10 and the BBC.

One unnamed official, now retired, expressed concern to Martin Howard, the deputy chief of defence intelligence, in a letter which was read out. The official wrote: "As probably the most senior and experienced intelligence community official working on 'WMD', I was so concerned about the manner in which intelligence assessments for which I had some responsibility were being presented in the dossier... that I was moved to write... recording and explaining my reservations."

The inquiry heard evidence that one defence intelligence official had discussed a claim in the dossier about growth media for Iraq's biological weapons programme. After speaking to Dr Kelly as the September dossier was being drawn up, the intelligence official wrote: "The existing wording is not wrong - but it has a lot of spin.

If the claim of a 45 minute deployment capability is just plain wrong, and it seems to be, given that the only thing we have found in Iraq deployable in 45 minutes are truckloads of...sand, I'd have to say that shite pretty well fits the bill for what was sold. Poodle Shite, I'd wager.