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Stuart :progress_pride:
@slowe@mastodon.me.uk

In 2003 I was very annoyed watching Tony Blair being interviewed in the lead up to his invasion of Iraq. He asserted that the UK was under imminent threat from Weapons Of Mass Destruction™. Within "45 minutes". In the interview he said, gravely, that he had access to information that we didn't. Yes. Of course he did. That didn't mean it was reliable or correct information. I was annoyed that he deliberately misled many to believe that it must be correct even though it wasn't.

Stuart :progress_pride:
@slowe@mastodon.me.uk

I think it was in that same interview that he also said he "believed" that there were Weapons Of Mass Destruction™ in Iraq. "Believe" seemed like a specific choice of word for a trained barrister. I didn't dispute that he'd convinced himself to "believe" the statement. I just could see that him "believing" in something and him "knowing information that the public doesn't" didn't require that the information be actually true. He could sort of not-technically-lie whilst also massively misleading.