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To: paul_philp who started this subject	3/21/2003 5:11:03 AM
From: zonder	of 143

Some insights as to the long and careful deliberation that led to the decision to invade Iraq: telegraph.co.uk. Blair 'restrained Bush from attacking Iraq after Sept 11' (...) from ordering military action against Iraq immediately after the September 11 attacks, (...) British sources disclosed yesterday. ------------------------------------------- After the September 11 attacks, hardline members of the administration, such as Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, called for Iraq to be included immediately as a target of the "war on terrorism". ---------------------------------------------- "The final decision to concentrate on Afghanistan was not taken until Blair met Bush in Washington," said a senior British source. ---------------------------------------------------- The issue was finally settled at the Camp David summit between Mr Bush and Mr Blair last September. A few days later, Mr Bush delivered his key address to the UN General Assembly. Another senior British official said: "There was tremendous in-fighting in Washington. The drafts of the speech went back and forth. I think there were 28 versions before the final text was agreed. "For us the key phrase was Bush's commitment to seeking a new UN resolution to disarm Iraq. We were only sure we had it 24 hours before the speech. "For some reason this was left out of the text on the teleprompter as Bush was reading it, and he had to improvise. "He managed to ad-lib a sentence saying 'we will work with the UN Security Council for the necessary resolutions'. But instead of saying 'resolution' he said 'resolutions' in the plural. That's how we got stuck with the French idea of two resolutions." ------------------------------------------------ But the officials said the subsequent diplomacy was mishandled, not least by Mr Powell, who did not embark on the face-to-face diplomacy needed to win international support. "Powell was so busy protecting his position in Washington that he did not travel. That was a mistake," said the source, "The UN vote did not need to come out as badly as it did."

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