"Let's Paint Spy Planes with U.N. Colors"
Having decided on going to war regardless of law, but lacking a saleable justification, George Bush suggested to UK PM Tony Blair in a January 31, 2003 meeting that the U.S. paint its spy planes with U.N. colors and logos, and fly over Iraq, with the hope of provoking Saddam Hussein to retaliate and thereby provide the missing justification for going to war against Iraq.
In minutes taken at the January 31, 2003 meeting between Bush and Blair, the two agreed that their earlier attempts to justify war by proving Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) were for naught.
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Says Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and professor of law at University College London (PHOTO: official University image), the minutes -- which Sands obtained from a participant who cannot be named -- "confirms absence of evidence of WMDs in Iraq" and confirms that the start date for war had been set regardless of the United Nations or any other international processes. Bush, notes Sands, also says in the meeting that he has "penciled in" a start date of March 10.
Sands, in a live person-to-person interview today with Amy Goodman who is airing Democracy Now! this week from London, says the minutes show that Bush tells Blair that he has more ideas, and it is at that point Bush brings up the wholly perverse idea of using U.S. spy planes disguised as U.N. planes. (Actually, I rather doubt Bush thought up that idea on his own, and I wonder who suggested it to him. Surely not one of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) members? It'd be amusing if someone in intel suggested it as a joke, but Bush took it seriously.)
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