This post should be entitled, "BOOM" get your ass back to Texas

But I'm not so sanguine, after all, the Cornerites will bemoan "it comes from Newsweek and Isikof and we only believe what they say about...the Clenis". Aaaaaaaah Waaaaaaaaah! But still, we are starting to see traction for the Downing Street Minutes and other documents.

Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memos stating that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and that there was "no recent evidence" of Iraqi ties to international terrorism—private conclusions that contradicted two key pillars of the Bush administration's public case for the invasion in March 2003...

...Blair agreed at the meeting to support a U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam’s regime provided that “certain conditions” were met. Those conditions, according to the newly leaked memo, were that efforts be made to “construct a coalition” and “shape” public opinion; that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was “quiescent,” and that attempts to eliminate Iraqi WMD through the return of United Nations weapons inspectors be exhausted.

Just one quick thought, other than "the the Hague bitches", is did Blair get a "Medal of Freedom" for explaining the meaning of "quiescent" to Dear Leader?

Moving right along...

“I think there is a real risk that the [Bush] administration underestimates the difficulties [of an invasion],” David Manning, a top foreign-policy adviser and now Britain’s ambassador to the United States, wrote in a March 14, 2002, memo to Blair shortly before the prime minister’s visit to Bush at Crawford. “They may agree that failure isn’t an option, but this does not mean that they will avoid it.”

And finally, the "gloriously never fired" Wolfowitz:

The document, a March 18, 2002, memo by Meyer, recounts a lunch the two men had the day before and is entitled “Iraq and Afghanistan: Conversation with Wolfowitz.”

According to the document, Meyer opened the lunch by telling Wolfowitz that Britain backed regime change "but the plan had to be clever and failure was not an option ... The U.S. 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." Meyer said he "then went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the [U.N. weapons] inspectors ... and the critical importance of the MEPP [Middle East peace process] as an integral part of the anti-Saddam strategy."

Wolfowitz said he "fully agreed," though he felt that in addition to making a public case about Saddam's WMD, it would also be "indispensable to spell out in detail Saddam's barbarism."

But the memo also reveals Wolfowitz’s determination to find connections between Saddam and international terrorists. “Wolfowitz said it was absurd to deny the link between terrorism and Saddam,” the memo states.

What a hump, what humps!

Feel free to take a trip boys!