Straight From the Downing Street Memo
There's just nothing quite like the smell of the smoking gun in the morning.
1. The memo has been verified as authentic
2. The memo is from months before the invasion
3. The "Military action, was seen as inevitable."
4. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action. justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being cooked around the policy.
5. It seems clear bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decide. But the case was weak.
6. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea and Iran.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Shorter DSM Talking Points
Stolen fully and completely from Missouri Mule*:
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