Mike the Usurper wrote:
] ] C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a
] ] perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now
] ] seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through
] ] military action, justified by the conjunction of
] ] terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were
] ] being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience
] ] with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing
] ] material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little
] ] discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military
] ] action.
]
] And now we see that there really was a rush to war. Lovely.

Presumably you saw my recent post entitled The Secret Way To War, which also included a copy of this memo. The article (from the New York Review of Books) provides extensive commentary on the memo, as well. I found it to be quite helpful in putting the memo in context.