The smoking gun

...it's a memo, not a mushroom cloud. A top secret memo to newly re-elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair made it clear that Bush was set on invading almost a year before bombs were dropped, long before there was intelligence to suggest necessary action:

"The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. 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."

Two countries, two liars re-elected.

UPDATE: FAIR implicates the MSM for its standard inattention to stories like this that indict the administration.

UPDATE 2: CNN picks up the story at last...