No sorry bruvva I never ruined my brain and soul by engaging in a racist war that was based on a shitty 90s movie
n September 2002, MI6 chief Sir
Richard Dearlove said the agency had acquired information from a new source revealing that Iraq was stepping up production of chemical and biological warfare agents. The source, who was said to have "direct access", claimed senior staff were working seven days a week while the regime was concentrating a great deal of effort on the production of
anthrax. Dearlove told the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Sir
John Scarlett, that they were "on the edge of (a) significant intel breakthrough" which could be the "key to unlock" Iraq's weapons programme.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)#cite_note-40"><span>[</span>40<span>]</span></a>
However, it was noticed that the agent's description of glass containers, not typically used for chemical munitions, resembled the nerve gas inaccurately depicted in glass beads or spheres in
The Rock. By February 2003 – a month before the
invasion of Iraq – MI6 concluded that their source had been lying "over a period of time" but failed to inform
No 10 or others, even though Prime Minister
Tony Blair had been briefed on this intelligence.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)#cite_note-41"><span>[</span>41<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)#cite_note-42"><span>[</span>42<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)#cite_note-independent-43"><span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a> According to
The Independent, the false claims of weapons of mass destruction were the justification for UK's entering the war.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)#cite_note-independent-43"><span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a>
Screenwriter David Weisberg said, "What was so amazing was anybody in the poison gas community would immediately know that this was total bullshit – such obvious bullshit". Weisberg said he was unsurprised a desperate agent might resort to films for inspiration, but dismayed that authorities "didn't do apparently the most basic fact-checking or vetting of the information. If you'd just asked a chemical weapons expert, it would have been immediately obvious it was ludicrous." Weisberg said he had had some "fun