"Explosive" comment from Independent, UK

[jmatthan]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=576429

"US gave date of war to Britain in advance, court papers reveal"

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

27 October 2004

"Alan Simpson, the leader of Labour Against the War, said the documents were "dynamite", if genuine, and showed that Clare Short was right to assert in her book, serialised in The Independent, that Mr Blair had "knowingly misled" Parliament."

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[molly]

1. OMG - this could be our November Surprise!

[jmatthan]

3. Now The Daily Mirror is carrying this story

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14801753%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=war%2dplots%2dexposed%2din%2diraq%2dtrial-name_page.html

"WAR PLOTS EXPOSED IN IRAQ TRIAL"


Oct 27 2004

[leftchick]

2. when was that little pow wow tony and chimpy* had...

before the war. I think it was in Ireland in Sept.??

[Englander]

4. There was a meeting at Camp David in Sept. '02....

I think the decision to go to war had definitely been made before then;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2242689.stm

[molly]

5. They are both toast - stick a fork in them

[jmatthan]

6. BBC has already carried the story earlier today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3957791.stm

Iraq dates 'planned in advance'


Has the story found its legs in the US??

Somebody alert the Kerry campaign, AirAmericaRadio, Thom Hartmann, etc.

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[molly]

7. I just emailed this link to the Kerry campaign