US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 25, The Iraq War (Con't)

Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.

—Downing Street Memo, July, 2002 (made public, May, 2005)

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