WH Memo: Phony UN Airplanes to Provoke War
By David Swanson
The Guardian is reporting that Bush told Blair “that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of ‘flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours’. Mr Bush added: ‘If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]’.”
This came out in a memo obtained by Phillipe Sands, QC, for the new edition of his book “Lawless World.”
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