Downing Street Redux

Thre's a new memo out, reported by Channel 4 News in England, which purports to be notes of another meeting between Bush and Tony Blair on January 31, 2002.

The memo, if authentic, provides more evidence that the Bush Administration had no intention of diplomatic solutions with Iraq, already planning ways to guide us to war while telling the Congress and the American people that they were going to exhaust all diplomatic options before starting a war.

The article is here.

For those of us who don't trust this President, the recent comments about trying to find a diplomatic solution to the issues in Iran sound a bit too familiar for comfort. The only saving grace is that by most reports, our armed forces are simply too tired and stretched too thin to successfully wage another war this soon after Afghanistan and Iraq.

(On the other hand, they may actually be trying diplomacy for real this time. I've got a lead on another story which I want to spend some time vetting. If it passes the sniff test, I'll have more on it later tonight.)

[Update: Apparently the Guardian in the UK also has the story, here.]

Liam.