False Flags Everywhere

The Observer reveals a confidential minutes of a meeting between Tony Blair and George Bush in January of 2003.  Most damning is the revelation that "Bush told Blair the US had drawn up a provocative plan "to fly U2 reconnaissance aircraft painted in UN colours over Iraq with fighter cover". Bush said that if Saddam fired at the planes this would put the Iraqi leader in breach of UN resolutions.""

This memo can be seen as a coda to the Downing Street memos, detailing a meeting of Blair's war cabinet in July of 2002, where the head of British Intelligence, Sir Richard Dearlove, said that in Washington, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."