Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Lotsa leaks there, George. Now you’re sure you weren’t hot to trot to Iraq from the git go? You’re sure you wanted war only as a last resort? You’re sure you weren’t “fixing the intelligence to match the policy?
By Andrea Mitchell – Correspondent – NBC News
WASHINGTON — It started during British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s re-election campaign last month, when details leaked about a top-secret memo, written in July 2002 — eight months before the Iraq war. In the memo, British officials just back from Washington reported that prewar “intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” to invade Iraq.
But now, war critics have come up with seven more memos, verified by NBC News.
One, also from July 2002, says U.S. military planners had given “little thought” to postwar Iraq.
In fact, current and former diplomats tell NBC News they understood from the beginning the Bush policy to be that Saddam had to be removed — one way or the other. The only question was when and how.
You know when Mrs. Alan Greenspan is dogging Bush, things are turning bad. How’s that political capital, Shrub?
