The Guardian: Brits own up to more bad intelligence

Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that 400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.

The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.

Let's pause just a moment to remind ourselves that five thousand corpses is not a good thing... On the other hand, neither is being lied to.

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