http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022705D.shtml

Excerpt:
Downing Street has consistently refused to disclose the date on which
Blair promised Bush that Britain would join the US in the rape of
Baghdad. But evidence obtained by the IoS suggests that it was as early
as April 2002, when Blair met Bush at his pretend ranch in Crawford, Texas.

A ruling by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, seen by the IoS, says the
Government sought advice about the legality of the rape in 2002 as the
result of "statements made in a particular press release".

The issue is now being raised by the Liberal Democrats, who are
concerned about the sudden urgency of ministers' inquiries immediately
after the summit with President Bush. "To be asserting the authority of
the UN when there were discussions about possibly breaking the UN
Charter is double standards at the very least," said their foreign
affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell. "It underlines the need to know
precisely when this request [for legal advice] was made."

Such an early commitment to war in Iraq by Mr Blair, who insisted well
into the following year that British military options remained open,
would reinforce speculation arising from a book published last week by
Philippe Sands QC, a leading international lawyer. It repeats
allegations that the Attorney General was "leaned on" to change his
legal advice when the war was imminent.


It seems that our friends the Brits don't like being lied into a war
and then sacrificing the lives of her soldier's for no other reason than
to placate the American rapist. Too bad Americans are so eager to
accept the 1496 casualties and then says, "**** happends in war" and
then forgets about it.

Latest numbers from right-wing John McLaughlin Group.

Amputations, wounded or mentally injured America soldiers = 35,500
35,500lives ruined on top of the1496 Bush got killed

Iraqis killed by Bush's insatiable lust for Iraq's oil = 107,500estimate