More Evidence of a Cooked War: US and Brits Tried to Engage Saddam in 2002

Brought to us by Attaturk at Atrios:

"Well, sure it's a war crime...but this is just rehashing old news" So sayeth the lords of the American Media, but at least the Times cares:

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown. The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive. The details follow the leak to The Sunday Times of minutes of a key meeting in July 2002 at which Blair and his war cabinet discussed how to make “regime change” in Iraq legal.