Don't know if this was posted already.

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Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion's legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today.

A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the invasion - reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second UN resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.

"The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning", the president told Mr Blair. The prime minister is said to have raised no objection. He is quoted as saying he was "solidly with the president and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam".

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[ 11 February 2006: Message edited by: rasmus raven ]

especially THIS:

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· Mr Bush told Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours". Mr Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]".

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Here Bush is taking a page from Hitler who justified his invasion of Poland after sending in commandos dressed as Polish soldiers to stage phoney cross border raids on German territory. This is REALLY beyond the pale.

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Originally posted by Américain Égalitaire:
Here Bush is taking a page from Hitler who justified his invasion of Poland after sending in commandos dressed as Polish soldiers to stage phoney cross border raids on German territory. This is REALLY beyond the pale.

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As I said when I reported this back on Feb 2 in USA > Downing Street Memo take 2:

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In the tradition of...
Havana harbour, 1898....
Western Poland, 1939....
Gulf of Tonkin, 1964....

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Originally posted by skdadl:
Another memo that is already provoking outrage in Britain, and will elsewhere ... but will sink like a stone in the U.S. msm.

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Originally posted by Cougyr:

These provide outrage in Britain, ubut ultimately sink like a stone there too. What will it take to oust Blair?

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