Another Downing Street troll zotted

Times of London ^ | June 12, 2005 | Michael Smith

[ddee]

Hot off the presses! A small excerpt from the article follows:

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.

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.

“US plans assume, as a minimum, the use of British bases in Cyprus and Diego Garcia,” the briefing paper warned. This meant that issues of legality “would arise virtually whatever option ministers choose with regard to UK participation”.

The paper was circulated to those present at the meeting, among whom were Blair, Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of MI6. The full minutes of the meeting were published last month in The Sunday Times.

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...

[cripplecreek]

About time, we needed something new to laugh at.

[Not A Snowbird]

I guess contingency planning is now a no-no in your world?

[L98Fiero]

Blah-dee, blah-dee, blah.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lol

[MikefromOhio]

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[MikefromOhio]

This troll wants to BECOME part of the street...

FIRE UP THE PAVERS!!!

[My Favorite Headache]

[Just A Nobody]

sniff, sniff

[Not A Snowbird]

The air is thick with flying trolls today.

[tet68]

I think it's time you Ddee Mao'd, but looking
I find that our superiour mods have already given you the
boot.

I second the zot.

[randog]

He [Conyers] and other Democratic congressmen plan to hold their own inquiry this Thursday with witnesses including Joe Wilson, the American former ambassador who went to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium ore for its nuclear weapons programme.

Back by popular demand, the unflappable Joe Wilson!

Jeezus, these guys are like a bad rash.

[Just A Nobody]

lol

That's hysterical - ROTFLMBO, big time!

[No Blue States]

[MikefromOhio]

hehe yeah it is and the scent of fried troll and ozone is in the breeze...

[JerseyHighlander]

Simple assumption is that one of Straw's underlings leaked this. Will Jack Straw benefit under a Brown run Labor cabinet? Absolutely.

Will Gordon Brown use the deaths of 89 British soldiers and however many British wounded as a prop against Blair?

[John Lenin]

Liberalism is a mental illness and you are the proof.

[SmithL]

ddee bye-bye:

[cripplecreek]

[Dubya-M-Dees]

Hellllooooo Troll.