More evidence of "selling" Iraq

At least there are still people out there willing to protect citizens from corrupt officials-- even if they aren't in our government any more. Some Republicans have tried to dismiss the Downing Street Minutes as lacking credibility, or possible forgeries. If so, then somebody in the British government has set up quite an operation. Because yet another document related to the top-level meeting in 2002 in which the head of MI6 informed the prime minister, etc., that the US had made the decision to invade Iraq, and just needed a marketing ploy (talk about the CEO administration) for the public. Apparently, in order to fool the citizens of two nations, the UN, and so on, lots of clever tricks were discussed. From the Times of London:

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 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 creat the conditions" which would make it legal.

This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action. . .

The document said the only way the allies could justify military action was to place Saddam Hussein in a position where he ignored or rejected a United Nations ultimatum ordering him to co-operate with the weapons inspectors. But it warned this would be difficult.

“It is just possible that an ultimatum could be cast in terms which Saddam would reject,” the document says. But if he accepted it and did not attack the allies, they would be “most unlikely” to obtain the legal justification they needed.

It's a given that the right will continue their tried-and-true tactics: lie to the public, and shout down critics. But will the mainstream media finally begin to do their jobs and report the story with this new evidence? Don't hold your breath.