On March 10, 2003, French President Jaques Chirac said, regarding the war in Iraq: ” ‘We should have tried to resolve this crisis without military action if we could, but the grave accusation that I am making is that there was deceit on the way to military action. If we can be deceived about that, what can we not be deceived about? …There must be better ways of making sure that information is properly used and decisions are properly made, especially when the lives of large numbers of human beings are at stake.’ ”
– Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 228