Secret No More...

[truthisfreedom]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.htm

SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL -- UK EYES ONLY
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02
cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.

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C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
CDS said that military planners would brief CENTCOM on 1-2 August, Rumsfeld on 3 August and Bush on 4 August.
The two broad U.S. options were:

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The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult. The situation might of course change.

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much more at source.{/i]

[notadmblnd]

1. Link is invalid

nt

[babylonsister]

2. Your link isn't working for me. nt

[whistle]

3. I got this message when I went to the link site....

<snip>
We're Sorry.
The page you requested, http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.htm, could not be found. It may have been moved; more likely it has been removed from our servers. Most articles are automatically purged from startribune.com's free news database after three weeks. Exceptions include obituaries, recipes and movie reviews.

[tavalon]

4. Gee, I guess it went back to being secret, eh? n/t

[babylonsister]

5. I'm thinking this is a copy of the DSM-see here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

[HereSince1628]

7. And your link works fine n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

6. No, the secret is still safe (bad link)!

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Corrected link

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.html

dropped the "l"

[UpInArms]

9. thanks!

also, this is a registration site -

you can go to www.bugmenot.com :toast:

[ihaveaquestion]

10. It's nice that they printed it, but...

I tried to find a link to it on their home page and on other news pages, but couldn't. What good is it having it on their site if there's not a link in a prominent place?

[Puglover]

11. Im sitting at work

with the Strib in hand....and the memo appears on page A19 the commentary page.

[ihaveaquestion]

12. OK, good - there's a link at the top of the Opinion page on-line!

[paineinthearse]

13. Please verify the link

I just tried it - http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.htm - and got an error message. Maybe the rethugs forced it off?

We're Sorry.
The page you requested, http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.htm, could not be found. It may have been moved; more likely it has been removed from our servers. Most articles are automatically purged from startribune.com's free news database after three weeks. Exceptions include obituaries, recipes and movie reviews.