Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 22, 2009

An official British inquiry has churned up new disclosures regarding the Bush administration?s efforts to create a pretext for war with Iraq.

The London Observer reports that a five-page memo written on January 31, 2003 describes a meeting between George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in which Bush said: ?The state date for the military campaign [is] now penciled in for 10 March. This [is] when the bombing would begin.?

The same document describes how Anglo-American diplomacy ?had to be arranged around ? military planning.?

Bush and Blair were aware that UN inspectors would fail to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So Bush suggested other potential triggers for war ? such as an overflight by an American U2 spy plane painted in UN colors. The intent was to provoke an attack on the plane that could provide a rationale for war.

Contriving an excuse for an unnecessary war is a repugnant crime against God and our Constitution.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.