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Alastair Campbell, Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications director and the man accused of "sexing up" the British case for going to war in Iraq, did his best last week to get himself and his boss out from under that charge. Smooth and understated at the "investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly" — Senior judge Lord Hutton's inquiry into the apparent suicide of Kelly, the former government weapons expert who shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then seemingly took his own life — Campbell had a nicely phrased denial ready. Asked whether he had influenced the words used in the British claim that Iraq could deploy WMD in 45 minutes, Campbell said: "I had no input, output, influence upon them whatsoever at any stage in the process." So: case closed?
Approximate Word count = 445
Approximate Pages = 1.8
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