The "secret Downing Street memo"

Recently the text of a previously-secret memo regarding war in Iraq, written by a foreign-policy aide in Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's office providing a summary of a meeting of the prime minister with his foreign secretary, the attorney general and senior defense staffers, was made public.

We find particularly disturbing the second paragraph, which we quote here:

"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

Here is the link to The [London] Times's publication of the entire memo: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html