A planned "failure" of diplomacy?
Court martial proceedings in the UK yesterday included the revelation that secret plans for the war in Iraq, including the date for the invasion, were passed to British Army chiefs by US defense planners five months before the invasion was launched. The papers and testimony, if confirmed as genuine, indicate that the decision had been made to invade long before such diplomatic measures as were underway were halted.
I suspect that over here in the states this will make little difference to the hardliners in the Bush camp, and probably little more to those who have been hoodwinked into believing lies such as the Iraq/al Qaida link, or that the U.N. weapons inspection program was a failure, despite it being well and repeatedly publicized that there was no Iraq/al Qaida link and the weapons inspection program (along with sanctions) had resulted in the complete dismantling of Iraq's WMD programs and the tagging and control of related materials already in existence... at least until the "coalition" forces took over.
Ove in the UK, though, this is almost certain to turn up the heat on Bush ally PM Tony Blair.
Comments