On February 2nd, U.K.'s Channel 4 News released the story of their having a copy of the classified transcript of the 31 January 2003 meeting of President Bush & British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House, where they agreed to provoke Saddam Hussein into military action that would justify an invasion of Iraq.
Portions of the classified transcript are online at http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1661
Bush said that "The US would put its full weight behind efforts to get another {U.N.} resolution and would 'twist arms' and 'even threaten'. But he had to say that if ultimately we failed, military action would follow anyway."
Blair responded that he is "solidly with the President and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam."
Extra credit question: How many times did you hear/see a report on this news item broadcast over the major media in the last week?
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