George And Tony's Excellent Adventure

Last year, the "Downing Street Memo" revealed that President Bush was determined to invade Iraq long before the UN inspectors had finished their jobs -- the "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," it read. The latest leaked memo hammers it home. "Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning." But that's not the wackiest thing. Acknowledging that Saddam had no WMD, Bush and Blair came up with Plan B: Provoke Saddam into attacking a US spy plane disguised in UN colors!

The text of the memo glosses over this, but I have it on good authority that Bush and Blair looked at each other and both jumped up and yelled, "Bay of Pigs!" followed by "Dude!" and "Sweet!" and then a big high-five.

Seriously, this just makes me sick. Days before Secretary of State Colin Powell presented our case against Iraq (which he privately referred to as "bullshit") to the United Nations, President Bush and Tony Blair already knew they wouldn't find any WMD and were mulling over provocations reminiscent of the CIA's laughable attempts to slip Castro exploding cigars! Madness.

tags: bush  iraq