Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says - New York Times

Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says - New York Times:

...But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

And were they so anxious to go to was with Iraq?

The memo indicates the two leaders envisioned a quick victory and a transition to a new Iraqi government that would be complicated, but manageable. Mr. Bush predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups." Mr. Blair agreed with that assessment.

And to what extremes were our leaders ready to go in order to guarantee war in Iraq, a country they knew to be uninvolved with the 9/11 attacks?

The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Mr. Hussein.

Nothing and nobody were going to stop BushCo from invading Iraq, a country with roughly one-third of the world's oil reserves.