Uh, Lyion, it's documentary proof that British intelligence officials KNEW that the US government was fixing the intelligence to give them a case to go to war. It comes straight from British government officials who were meeting with the US government at the time.
Directly from that secret memo:
Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action ... But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
Proof there was no post-war plan wrote:There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran.
The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action.
So, lets see, O'Neill and Clarke both said that the administration was twisting the intelligence around to justify a previously decided war on Iraq. Right-wingnuts trash their names and discount their statements, along with smearing their names. Now here we have a report for a meeting with the British Prime Minister, that was never intended to be made public, that PROVES that the British knew all along that the US was inventing reasons to go to a war that they'd already decided on. How much more proof do you NEED before you'll accept the fact that the government lied from day 1, and were following the advice of the PNAC people, like Cheney and Wolfowitz?
Oh, and Mindia: Are you calling The London Times an unreliable source? It's only, what, the single most respected newspaper in the entire world? Oh yeah, good luck convincing people that it's a hack tabloid.
-Arlos
