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Bombshell As Six
More British Documents Leaked
06/13/05
- - Six new secret British documents have been leaked and are provided below. These were retyped from the originals to protect
the source, RawStory.com has verified the authenticity .
Iraq options paper:
Full text
The following, titled "IRAQ OPTIONS PAPER,"
was prepared and dated March 8, 200. It presents possible courses to war. Continued
British foreign secretary
Straw says case for Iraq is weak
he following
is purported to have been penned by the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw--U.S. equivalent of Secretary of State--concerning
a possible war in Iraq. Straw indicates the case for war is weak; that the Iraq situation has remained unchanged; and that
the United States would not have gone to war without September 11. Continued.
Condi committed to regime
change in early 2002
The following, is purported
to be written by Blair foreign policy advisor David Manning, indicates that now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was committed
to "regime change" in early 2002. It also outlines some problems a postwar Iraq might face. Continued
Iraq: The British legal
background
The following was said prepared as
an Iraq legal background for war. It is not dated. Continued
'What has changed is not the pace of Saddam's WMD programs'
06/13/05 - - This memorandum, said from Blair political director Peter Ricketts
and dated Mar. 22, 2002, indicates the challenges that an Iraq war would face. It indicates that it would have been carbon
copied to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and President George W. Bush. "The truth is that what has changed is not the
pace of Saddam Hussein’s WMD programmes," the document says. Continued
'The need to wrongfoot Saddam
on the inspectors'
The following is said from
Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the US from 1997 through February 2003, and dated in March of 2002. Strikingly, the
document speaks of a "need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors" and suggests British intelligence and diplomacy draws a
great deal on articles written by Sy Hersh in the New Yorker. It also describes a meeting with then-Deputy Secretary of Defense,
Paul Wolfowitz. Continued.
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