Why would anyone enlist now? (mentions Downing Street Documents)

[Shallah Kali]

Americans losing faith with government and with reasons nation went to war in Iraq.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/articles/1584477.html

In the July meeting, Blair and his aides discussed the Americans' plan to create an international crisis around Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction. The idea was to set the stage for war by demanding that Saddam Hussein readmit U.N. weapons inspectors; when Hussein refused, that would be the excuse to invade.

However, as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told Blair in that July meeting, "The case is thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

Blair was also told that the "most likely timing in U.S. minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the U.S. congressional elections."

That description is damning, indicating that the Bush administration cynically manipulated its war plans to create maximum political advantage for Republican congressional candidates.

The document's most devastating paragraph, however, summarizes a report by the head of British intelligence, known as "C." "C" has just returned from meetings in Washington, and he's telling Blair what he learned there: "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," "C" tells Blair. "But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy. ... There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

[AndyTiedye]

1. I Want To Get This Poster Reprinted

It's one of the best of the Vietnam-era posters
and it seems really timely right now.

This isn't a very good image of it (the original was much brighter)
but it's the only one I could find on the web.

Does anybody have one of the originals?