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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Your red quote says that Rumsfeld told them Saddam had WMDs, and the Brits asked questions using that premise.
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The memo does not suggest any such thing. The quote is speculation by Brit military.
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"fixed" in this case means cherry picked and massaged.
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It does not. The paragraph tells us that they wanted to use military force and now sought intelligence to justify that approach.
That's a subtle difference, but it's important.
If the US administration wanted to cherry-pick and massage the intelligence, this would not be the subject of a British government meeting with memos.
If any of the Brits in this meeting felt the Americans were lying, chrry-picking or massaging, the meeting would be quite different.
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It is not an opinion memo, it is the minutes of a meeting.
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And that section of the memo is the minutes reporting the opinion of one person.
Nice try HM, but your own bias is showing in your interpretation.