Blair defends Iraq war, downplays 2002 memo (WH's talking points)

[Broken Acorn]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8402894/

British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday defended the war in Iraq, and brushed off a new question about a government memo that suggested Washington had been determined to justify the invasion.

“I was glad that we took the action we did,” Blair told the House of Commons when asked about the so-called Downing Street memo. His comments came a day after President Bush rejected suggestions that Washington set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and urged patience

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He emphasized that the 2002 meeting was before Britain and the United States sought and secured a resolution from the United Nations Security Council — a path that indicated they were not bent on military action.
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This is the whole point about the DSM!!!!

The minutes indicated that the White House was fixing the intelligence for justifying the war. The meeting happened BEFORE going to the UN. All Blair is doing is confirming what the DSM already suggests.

How can the public be so stupid to listen to his response and think to downplay the DSM? Blair is implicating himself by admitting that the DSM came out before going to the UN.

I think my head is going to explode.