You really should read it. "It" being the minutes of a Prime Minister's meeting held on July 23, 2002, in London with regard to Iraq. This was published in The Times of London on May 1, has not been denied by anyone and has been confirmed by "senior officials". I have the feeling that it is a real document and not a scam.
To my mind, the key excerpt is "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath of military action (my emphasis)."
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