Lawmaker to examine secret Iraq memo - MercuryNews.com | 06/16/2005 |

MercuryNews.com | 06/16/2005 | Lawmaker to examine secret Iraq memo:
06/16/2005

"Conyers plans to deliver the signatures of 105 congressional Democrats and more than 500,000 citizens on petitions demanding a detailed response from the Bush administration to the memo's allegations, which said it ``seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action.'' The memo also says the Bush White House ``fixed'' intelligence data to justify the war and ignored reports showing that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction.

Other documents have since come to light, including a 2002 memo to Blair on a British official's dinner with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that says, ``Condi's enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed.''

Bush has long said he did not decide to go to war until shortly before the bombing began in March 2003. The administration's pre-war emphasis on the danger of Iraq's alleged weapons proved to be erroneous after inspectors failed to find any biological, chemical or nuclear weapons."