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From: Marktcards (84.92.179.110)
Subject: more Bush Blair memos
Date: February 2, 2006 at 2:42 pm PST
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals · PM backed invasion despite illegality warnings
· Plan to disguise US jets as UN planes
· Bush: postwar violence unlikely 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 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". The memo seen by Prof Sands reveals: · Mr Bush told the 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]". · Mr Bush even expressed the hope that a defector would be
extracted from Iraq and give a "public presentation about
Saddam's WMD". He is also said to have referred Mr Blair to a
"small possibility" that Saddam would be "assassinated". · Mr Blair told the US president that a second UN resolution
would be an "insurance policy", providing "international cover,
including with the Arabs" if anything went wrong with the
military campaign, or if Saddam increased the stakes by burning
oil wells, killing children, or fomenting internal divisions
within Iraq. · Mr Bush told the prime minister that he "thought it unlikely
that there would be internecine warfare between the different
religious and ethnic groups". Mr Blair did not demur, according
to the book.
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