AP: DSM Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War

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LONDON (AP) - When Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief foreign policy adviser dined with Condoleezza Rice six months after Sept. 11, the then-U.S. national security adviser didn't want to discuss Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida. She wanted to talk about ``regime change'' in Iraq, setting the stage for the U.S.-led invasion more than a year later.

Memo: ``U.S. scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing for Iraq, `regime change' does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam.''
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2. British lawyers warned government pre-war bombing of Iraq was illegal

<snip> LONDON (AP) - Lawyers told the British government U.S. and British bombing of
Iraq in the months before the 2003 war was illegal under international law, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Leaked minutes of a July 23, 2002, meeting between Prime Minister
Tony Blair and top government officials cite U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as saying: "The U.S. had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime."
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