Buried on page A17 of the WaPo is yet again more new evidence that Bush was dead-set on going to war. The lead is
Less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction, according to a report of a Feb. 22, 2003, meeting between President Bush and his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper yesterday.
Spain's prime minister at the time, Jose Maria Aznar, expressed hope that war might be avoided . . and "would also save us $50 billion," referring to the initial U.S. estimate of what the Iraq war would cost. But Bush made it clear in the meeting that he expected to "be in Baghdad at the end of March."
Bush was happy to play the war hawk, "The more the Europeans attack me, the stronger I am in the United States." he is reported to say.
This has been reported before, but never in this detail. Funny how it only made page A17 of the Washington Post.