Wednesday, April 21, 2004


Iraq war damaged UK - Archbishop
...Dr Williams hinted the UK's "political health" has been damaged by failure to find weapons of mass destruction.

Admitting error might be one way to restore trust, he said in a sermon delivered in Cambridge on Tuesday. ...

...Dr Williams said claims on the political loyalty of Christians had to do with a "demonstrable attention to truth, even unwelcome truth".

He said: "There were things government believed it knew and claimed to know on a privileged basis which, it emerged, were anything but certain - there were things which regional experts and others knew which seemed not to have received attention."

He added: "The evidence suggests to many that obedience to a complex truth suffered from a sense of urgency that made attention harder." ...