Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action - Sunday Times - Times Online

Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action - Sunday Times - Times Online: "June 12, 2005

Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action
The paper, produced by the Cabinet Office on

July 21, 2002,

is incomplete because the last page is missing. The following is a transcript rather than the original document in order to protect the source.

PERSONAL SECRET UK EYES ONLY

IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION (A Note by Officials)
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(3) Agree to engage the US on the need to set military plans within a realistic political strategy, which includes identifying the succession to Saddam Hussein and creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action,
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1. The US Government's military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace. But, as yet, it lacks a political framework. In particular, little thought has been given to creating the political conditions for military action, or the aftermath and how to shape it.
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3. We need now to reinforce this message and to encourage the US Government to place its military planning within a political framework... This is particularly important for the UK because it is necessary to create the conditions in which we could legally support military action." AND MUCH MORE...