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Legislators in each country approved the actual war. but blair's former chief of staff has denied such an agreement. one member of the inquiry's panel has indicated that bush told blair he planned to take out saddam hussein even if saddam cooperated with u.n. weapons in investigators. what about wmd as the trumped up excuse for war? no had wmd ever found obviously. what about the downing street memo which claimed the u.s. government fixed the intelligence and the facts around its policy, the report is due by year's end. its scrutiny and analysis will not establish criminal or civil liability, ...

Because of wmd's and now we're hearing meetings occurring a year before even the resolution of the united nations. i'm sorry, six months before the resolution, a year before the war. we're hearing different reasons that were put forward. that's a lot to answer for. and i think that you're going to find its going to be difficult to get the truth, i do think the truth is like water, it tends to find its way out, and eventually it will. >> how much of that water will find its way unite through this british inquiry. they have this access to their own classified information, which we're beginning t...

In article i, section 8 the framers required a declaration of war. and congress has circumvented that obligation. when you read the british accounts, it's clear there was a genius in that, that we should have declarations of war, we should have the articulation of why we do things because what we're learning is deeply disturbing. >> jonathan turley of george washington university, as always, john, great thanks. >> thanks, keith. here's a television and history tease for you. who was margaret chase smith and what does margaret chase smith have to do with the next two segments on countdown, on...

Work together. that's the picture that president obama's going for on february 25th. that's the picture he's going to get from his side clearly. because you just look at this tape today, there's no question. just contents aside, there's no question who is the most reasonable man after the meeting going to the microphone. he's going to win the contest every time. >> the letter setting those preconditions back fired to the degree that bill kristol said it was silly that, they -- some woman reading a script at fox news asked a question in which she said it was not bipartisan in nature. why did th...

They're going do package regime change and the rationale doesn't matter much. >> and we have also heard, and it hasn't gotten any attention here, how blair purged his cabinet of anyone who was asking the mildest of questions. the big picture relative to us again, this formula i postulated at the start of the story, something of such import that congress would have to start its own inquiry, and the whus be dammed, i think it's plausible, but its realistic chance of it happening is less than 1%? >> part of the problem is that there's a collective interest in trying to keep history from knowing w...