Knight Ridder: British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq pol

[deminks]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11574296.htm

WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.

The memo said "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is circulating a letter among fellow Democrats asking Bush for an explanation of the document's charges, an aide said.

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Well, it is all there. I hope this gets picked up by a lot of newspapers.

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