Bush asked to explain UK war memo - May 11, 2005 CNN.com -

CNN.com - Bush asked to explain UK war memo - May 11, 2005:

"Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said 'intelligence and facts were being fixed' to support the Iraq war in mid-2002 -- well before the president brought the issue to Congress for approval.

The Times of London newspaper published the memo -- actually minutes of a high-level meeting on Iraq held July 23, 2002 -- on May 1.

British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity, and Michael Boyce, then Britain's Chief of Defense Staff, told the paper that Britain had not then made a decision to follow the United States to war, but it would have been 'irresponsible' not to prepare for the possibility."