CHAIRMAN FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE DONALD ANDERSON ADDRESSES NEWS CONFERENCE., 2003-07-07 (photo)

Chairman for the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Donald Anderson addresses a news conference after delivering the select committee's findings on the "decision to go to war with Iraq" report July 7, 2003. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government did not mislead parliament or doctor evidence to justify the war on Iraq, a parliamentary committee concluded on Monday. The Foreign Affairs Committee, which has been probing charges officials exaggerated intelligence on Iraq's weapons to strengthen the case for war, cleared Blair, a top aide and ministers of the allegations, made on the BBC. But the committee did slap the government's wrists for giving undue prominence to questionable intelligence in a September dossier on Iraq's weapons and for plagiarising a student thesis for a second dossier published in February. REUTERS/Russell Boyce RUS