Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War - Yahoo! News

Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War - Yahoo! News:

"In one of the memos, British Foreign Office political director Peter Ricketts openly asks whether the Bush administration had a clear and compelling military reason for war.

'U.S. scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing,' Ricketts says in the memo. 'For Iraq, `regime change' does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam.'

The documents confirm Blair was genuinely concerned about Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction, but also indicate he was determined to go to war as America's top ally, even though his government thought a pre-emptive attack may be illegal under international law."