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Another Downing Street troll zotted
Times of London ^
| June 12, 2005
| Michael Smith
Posted on 06/12/2005 10:26:34 AM PDT by ddee
Hot off the presses! A small excerpt from the article follows:
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blairs inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was necessary to create the conditions which would make it legal.
This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action.
US plans assume, as a minimum, the use of British bases in Cyprus and Diego Garcia, the briefing paper warned. This meant that issues of legality would arise virtually whatever option ministers choose with regard to UK participation.
The paper was circulated to those present at the meeting, among whom were Blair, Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of MI6. The full minutes of the meeting were published last month in The Sunday Times.
The document said the only way the allies could justify military action was to place Saddam Hussein in a position where he ignored or rejected a United Nations ultimatum ordering him to co-operate with the weapons inspectors. But it warned this would be difficult...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britishmemo; joewilson; josephwilson; nigerflap; sirzotsalot; troll; wilson; wmd; zot; zotmedaily; zotmehard; zotmeharder; zotmetillipuke; zotsfortots; zottedagain; zuluoscartango
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posted on
06/12/2005 10:26:35 AM PDT
by
ddee
To: ddee
About time, we needed something new to laugh at.
2
posted on
06/12/2005 10:28:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: ddee
I guess contingency planning is now a no-no in your world?
3
posted on
06/12/2005 10:32:24 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: ddee
Blah-dee, blah-dee, blah.
4
posted on
06/12/2005 10:32:41 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
To: ddee
5
posted on
06/12/2005 10:32:58 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
To: ddee
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooooooooooooooooootttttttttttttttt
6
posted on
06/12/2005 10:33:50 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!! 9,866 or so replies and counting....Getting Closer!!!!)
To: ddee; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; Conspiracy Guy; NYC GOP Chick; MeekOneGOP; Fedora; ...
This troll wants to BECOME part of the street...
FIRE UP THE PAVERS!!!
7
posted on
06/12/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!! 9,866 or so replies and counting....Getting Closer!!!!)
To: ddee
8
posted on
06/12/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: cripplecreek
9
posted on
06/12/2005 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
To: MikeinIraq
The air is thick with flying trolls today.
10
posted on
06/12/2005 10:35:48 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: ddee
I think it's time you Ddee Mao'd, but looking
I find that our superiour mods have already given you the
boot.
I second the zot.
11
posted on
06/12/2005 10:36:06 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ddee
He [Conyers] and other Democratic congressmen plan to hold their own inquiry this Thursday with witnesses including Joe Wilson, the American former ambassador who went to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium ore for its nuclear weapons programme.Back by popular demand, the unflappable Joe Wilson!
Jeezus, these guys are like a bad rash.
12
posted on
06/12/2005 10:36:39 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Psycho_Bunny
lol That's hysterical - ROTFLMBO, big time!
13
posted on
06/12/2005 10:36:40 AM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
To: ddee
To: SandyInSeattle
hehe yeah it is and the scent of fried troll and ozone is in the breeze...
15
posted on
06/12/2005 10:37:04 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!! 9,866 or so replies and counting....Getting Closer!!!!)
To: ddee
Simple assumption is that one of Straw's underlings leaked this. Will Jack Straw benefit under a Brown run Labor cabinet? Absolutely.
Will Gordon Brown use the deaths of 89 British soldiers and however many British wounded as a prop against Blair?
To: ddee
Liberalism is a mental illness and you are the proof.
17
posted on
06/12/2005 10:37:31 AM PDT
by
John Lenin
(It's a joy watching demoRATS self destruct)
To: ddee
ddee bye-bye:
18
posted on
06/12/2005 10:37:39 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(Proud Submariner)
To: ddee
19
posted on
06/12/2005 10:38:26 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: ddee
Hellllooooo Troll.
20
posted on
06/12/2005 10:40:28 AM PDT
by
Dubya-M-Dees
(The filibuster has become the tool of the sore loser.)
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