UK Ambassador: Karl Rove Was Willing to Wait till 2004 for War

Lest there remained any doubt that Bush's team really believed that Iraq posed an urgent threat in early 2003...

The former British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, has revealed that the Bush administration would have been willing to wait as late as 2004 to go war with Iraq, in order to get Britain's support.

He reveals that Karl Rove, the political adviser to the president, told him there would have been no problem for Mr Bush in waiting until the end of 2003 or even early 2004 and this would not have risked entanglement in the US presidential campaign.

This comes from an article in London's Guardian newspaper introducing Sir Christopher's new book, DC Confidential .

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1635997,00.html

and if so, would make a seeming illegal war even more illegaler.

Falujah. Bush/Rove/Rumsfeld knew it would be messy so they just waited until after the election before going in.

just wanted to point that out.

as long as they fit it in before November, that's the important thing.