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According to the Pentagon manual , this is necessary because witnesses - such as military personnel or foreigners - may not be available to testify . [ Children are often seen throughout the film witnessing - and then participating in - the violence . Moreover to treat the negative evidence of such witnesses - " I did not see it happen " - as positive proof that it did not happen is to fall victim to an obvious logical fallacy . Witness - disclosure of prior convictions - defence aware that witness was police informer but not that he had received consideration for such in his own sentencing proceedings - whether absence of cross examination led to miscarriage . " These criminal orders , did not as some of the witnesses - such as von Brauchitsch and von Manstein - tried to establish here , remain on paper only . Despite this intelligence , what Wilkie witnessed - to his astonishment - throughout 2002 and early 2003 , was the systematic distortion by the pro-war leaders in America , Britain and Australia of the sceptical , ambiguous or nuanced intelligence on Iraq all these governments received .