New Downing Street Memos: "Need to Wrongfoot Saddam".

Here is yet another log for the fire.

This new memo is is dated March 18th, 2002. The author is one Sir Christopher Meyer, British Ambassador to the United States.

The US could go it alone if it wanted to. But if it wanted to act with partners, there had to be a strategy for building support for military action against Saddam. I then went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UN SORs and the critical importance of the MEPP as an integral part of the anti-Saddam strategy. If all this could be accomplished skilfully, [sic] we were fairly confident that a number of countries would come on board.

Lot's of manipulating cited here, not much doubt that they knew the case was thin. Bastards!