How about in your neck of the woods? Is this getting legs, I truly hope so!
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505130309may13,1,5132455.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hedProtest builds over British documents on lead-up to war
By John Daniszewski, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; Times staff writer Paul Richter in Washington contributed to this report
Published May 13, 2005
LONDON -- Reports in the British media this month based on documents indicating that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain.
But in the United States, where the reports at first received scant attention, there has been a groundswell of indignation among critics of the Bush administration, who say the documents help prove the leaders made a secret decision to oust Saddam Hussein nearly a year before launching their attack, shaped intelligence to that aim and never seriously intended to avert the war through diplomacy.
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Quickly `out of date'
Since Smith's report was published May 1, Blair's Downing Street office has not disputed the papers' authenticity. A Blair spokesman who was asked about them this week said the memo added nothing of significance to the much-investigated record of the lead-up to the war.
"At the end of the day, nobody pushed the diplomatic route harder than the British government. ... So the circumstances of this July discussion very quickly became out of date," the spokesman said.
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