new document- "smoking cannon"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html

 

The Sunday Times - Britain June 12, 2005 (British) Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’ by 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... The rest of the article is equally fascinating, and damaging.- recommended reading. In the name of the God of truth, Carol Wolman