Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
The Times online
Michael Smith
June 12, 2005
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 Blair’s 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.
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