Brit says U.S. "fixed" case for Iraq invasion

Saying Bush lied to start the Iraq invasion isn't exactly anything new. That's been proven over and over. But the evidence that still keeps pouring out is worth noting.

Britain's top intelligence officer, Richard Dearlove, told Prime Minister Tony Blair "that 'the facts and intelligence' were being 'fixed round the policy' by the Bush Administration"--nine months before the March 2003 invasion. The lie was on, the Brits knew it was all a lie, and Blair went ahead and sold it to the British as if it were all true anyway.

Disarmament, which was the only angle Blair could be halfway honest about, was never Bush's goal. Regime change was. Why? Does anyone need to be told at this point? An unarmed and harmless Saddam Hussein would still be in control of all that Iraqi oil. And an unarmed and harmless Saddam would be ten times as hard to get rid of.