I Can Hardly wait for the DSM-IV Memo

Froomkin yesterday:

A second British memo from 2002 emerged over the weekend chronicling how senior officials there saw the Bush administration as bent on war in Iraq and inattentive to postwar consequences.

Just last week, the MSM (that's mainstream media) turned its attention to the first DSM (that's Downing Street Memo) in earnest. (See my June 8 column for background.)

The new memo (can we call it DSM-II?) comes at a particularly bad time for Bush, as polls show that public sentiment is turning sharply against the war.

Whether you read the memos as a reminder of how the Bush administration was relentless in its drive to confront Saddam Hussein -- or whether you read them as evidence of cynical, deliberate and misguided manipulation -- the White House would much rather you weren't thinking about Iraq at all this week--it is focusing public attention on domestic issues instead.

Once again...

Conducting a "War of Agression" is a War Crime.

I suggest that Saddam and George W. Bush both be turned over to the Hague for at least one similar indictment -- Conducting an illegal war of agression.

Saddam for the "Incubator War of 1991"

And Dear Princeling for "Mission Accomplished 2003".

And perhaps Robert Redford for the "Milagro Beanfield War of 1988" (I keed, I keed)