More on the Blair Iraq War Briefing Memo
Both the Washington Post and the Times Online have updates on the July, 2002 briefing paper (of which the Downing Street Memo was a part.) The Times Online report has these new details:
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.
In May, the Times Online outlined the briefing memo here. (our post on this is here.) The full text of the paper is here.
Crooks and Liars has lots of Dowing Street Memo coverage today.
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