I'd like to see how this turns out. There should be some skepticism into the validity of the document seeing as it's only supporters are "former blah blah blah's", key word being former... or blah, whichever side of the darwin scale you're on
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Some might call it prudent planning. I'm glad they were looking into the inevitable. Bush does look like he's giving off a pro-war attitude to some people but there are many that don't think he is.
"It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force."
I find that to be the most interesting part of the memo. How does one come to a conclusion of Saddam's WMD capability when the UN weapons inspectors had NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO REPORT IT?
I also see the word "seemed..." this coming from the guy that just made that ignorant comment about Saddam's capabilities. Looks like he was either over worked or digging up some job security.
On the other hand, it's disturbing to read some of this if the "seemed" is proven through offical documents and not memo's.
Here's another thing that popped out at me; ultimatum... What good are UN rules if there is no ultimatum? I mean wtf are the inspectors for if you can just refuse to let them in and no consiquences... seems rather stupid to NOT consider an ultimatum for such defiance. Don't forget that it was Saddam, not Bush, that refused UN inspections. When you do that, you're hiding something and when you're hiding something from "weapons" inspectors it's usually weapons. Call me out on this but I don't consider this memo to be harmful unless taken out of context.
I want to hear what the white house and Blare have to say about it. Also let's not forget about the "documents" pertaining to Bush's National Guard records. What a farse that all turned out to be.