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February 13th, 2006

12:08 am [Link]

"Lawless World" Casts Doubt on Case for War Book Casts Doubt on Case for War President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were not sure there was enough evidence to convince the Security Council to go to war with Iraq. Bush proposed an alternative: to paint a US spy plane in United Nations colors to see if that would tempt Hussein's forces to shoot at it. This January 31, 2003, account appears in the new edition of "Lawless World," a book by British author Philippe Sands. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021206E.shtml