Holy shit this is huge!
If it's already been posted here, sorry, but I sure didn't see it.
This should be the top story of the WEEK!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war `excuse'
Michael Smith
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal.
(snip)
The paper was circulated to those present at the meeting, among whom were Blair, Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of MI6. The full minutes of the meeting were published last month in The Sunday Times.
(more at link)
This is huge! Let's blast this far and wide!
I highly recommend the DU media blaster:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster
Also:
http://www.congress.org
(for those who might not already be aware of these)
On edit: If someone could coach me in how to post a link so it's clickable I'd appreciate it. I'm kind of new here.
