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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-1592904-523,00.html


May 01, 2005

Blair hit by new leak of secret war plan
Michael Smith





A SECRET document from the heart of government reveals today that Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure Saddam Hussein into providing the legal justification.

The Downing Street minutes, headed ��Secret and strictly personal — UK eyes only��, detail one of the most important meetings ahead of the invasion.

It was chaired by the prime minister and attended by his inner circle. The document reveals Blair backed ��regime change�� by force from the outset, despite warnings from Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, that such action could be illegal.

The minutes, published by The Sunday Times today, begins with the warning: ��This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. The paper should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know.�� It records a meeting in July 2002, attended by military and intelligence chiefs, at which Blair discussed military options having already committed himself to supporting President George Bush��s plans for ousting Saddam.



So waddya think pilgrim? Are yuh still sure Saddam was an "imminent threat"?


I took special notice of this part:


The political strategy proved to be arguing Iraq��s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed such a threat that military action had to be taken. However, at the July meeting Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, said the case for war was ��thin�� as ��Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran��.




http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=634702


A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that President Bush had firmly made up his mind to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, adding that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

At the same time, a document obtained by this newspaper reveals the Foreign Office legal advice given to Mr Blair in March 2002, before he travelled to meet Mr Bush at his Texas ranch. It contains many of the reservations listed nearly a year later by the Attorney General in his confidential advice to the Prime Minister, which the Government was forced to publish last week, including the warning that the US government took a different view of international law from Britain or virtually any other country.



I'm not surprised by this, it's just one more of those things that are eventually going to come out.

I wonder what will happen as more and more people realize that the "tin-foil-hat-crowd" was right all along.

[Kuros]

Saddam was a 'scapegoat.' He was someone the U.S. had to hit to make the Middle East governments fear harboring terrorists. Of course, very, very few are sad to see Saddam go. I think the U.S. (and apparently the U.K.) picked their 'scapegoat' well.

But all due respect to the 'tin-foil-hat-club' for being right on this. (Although, the more conspiracies one believes in, the greater the chance of being roughly correct about the existence of one or two of them)

[The Bobster]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

It wasn't like Saddam was ever going to make nice anyway.

[Kuros]

[igotthisguitar]

>. Another leak eh ??? So what ???

Does anyone honestly thnk he's NOT getting another term ??? The Sun could publish pictures of him parading "just for kicks" around #10 Downing Street in drag with some of his more "esteemed" parlimentary colleagues & he'd still find himself at the helm.

Just as the case was with Bush, he's in there like sin people

[R. S. Refugee]

[igotthisguitar]

[supernick]

Blair has brought back the days of glory to the British. It was not so long ago that the British would have been more than proud about invading a country, as they were more than use to it. It's also not the first time that Britain has bombed Iraq and installed a puppet government; the only difference this time round is that the war was made on false pretenses. In the old days, the Brits would have just invaded for the simple reason of expanding its empire.

People can say what they want about conspiracy theories, but we all know how it severs the interests of the U.S. and the UK to have control over Iraqi oil, and from what I've seen so far, Iraq does not have control of its oil nor its revenue.

All in all, Blair has done a good job in other matters.

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Alias]

When Blair is re-elected I have no doubt that certain neo-con pundits are going to claim this means that the British public supports the war.

[igotthisguitar]

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