(as I said earlier) It doesn't really matter to me weather this is true or not. Say it is true, George Bush & Tony Blair got together and decided that it was time for Saddam to go. GOOD! They were thinking and talking about this for a while, (once again) GOOD.
Understood.
No, the memo isn't damning. And all the attention paid to the word "fixed" ignores the dictionary definition, and the context of the memo. It was used in the sense of "organized" (not surprising, given it's a document purportedly written in the King's English), not the Bowery Boys sense of "da fix is in." Even the English article that broke the story didn't attach much importance to the phrase - presumably they are familiar with the English spoken there, even if we are not. Seems the DUers need to crack a dictionary:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/fix
So you are right. But of course the questionable authenticity of the memo raises its own set of very interesting and important questions.