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Bush to Blair: First Iraq, Then Saudi
By Marie Woolf
The Independent UK

Sunday 16 October 2005

George Bush told the Prime Minister two months before the invasion of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea may also be dealt with over weapons of mass destruction, a top secret Downing Street memo shows.

The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq".

He implied that the military action against Saddam Hussein was only a first step in the battle against WMD proliferation in a series of countries.

Mr Bush said he "wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD proliferation", says the letter on Downing Street paper, marked secret and personal.




Wow. Hard to believe that as much damage as this guy has done, he originally thought and planned to do soooooo much more. Looked at from this perspective his War on Teror plans didn't go all that much further than his Social Security agenda.