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Most of the evidence for the illegality of the attempted conquest of Iraq is in this article.

Acknowledging the Rush to War
by Alan Bock*

It is perhaps ironic - but charming to one who finds the phenomenon that intentions good and ill so often go awry more amusing than infuriating - that it has been in Great Britain, with its vaunted Official Secrets Act, that leaks have occurred that have made the mainstream press take notice of the extreme likelihood that the Bush administration was bent on attacking Saddam Hussein no matter what, once the terrorist attacks of 9/11 gave them the thinnest of pretexts. This belated recognition is welcome, and might - though I might be stretching here - serve as a mild deterrent on public opinion the next time our reputed leaders have a hankering to rush this country into war again.

What is somewhat striking, however, is that it was not all that hard to figure this out, either during the summer of 2002, the time of the vaunted Downing Street Memo, or in late January 2003, the time when David Manning, who was British prime minister Tony Blair�s chief foreign policy adviser at the time, wrote the memo highlighted earlier this week in a New York Times story. There were plenty of people without access to secret briefings in the inner circle - I was far from the only one - who were quite sure (though we sometimes entertained the hope that we were wrong), from analyzing past and present attitudes and influences and current events, that this country was headed inevitably toward war and all those UN resolutions and presentations were mere window dressing.

*Alan Bock is Senior Essayist at the Orange County Registerand a weekly columnist for WorldNetDaily. He is the author of Ambush at Ruby Ridge (Putnam-Berkley, 1995). He is also author of the new book Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana(Seven Locks Press). His exclusive column appears every Tuesday on Antiwar.com.

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