MORE EVIDENCE OF PREMEDITATION

Paul O'Neill, Pres. Bush's first Secretary of the Treasury, provided us with the cover page for the first two meetings of his National Security Council and the main topic was Iraq. The Raw Story reports that the British were aware in early 2001 of the criminal Bush regime's desire to invade Iraq:

US discussed Iraq regime change a month after Bush took office, senior British officials say

By John Byrne
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 -- 9:13 am
The Raw Story

The chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001 told investigators Monday that elements of the Bush Administration were pushing for regime change in Iraq in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks and two years before President George W. Bush formally announced the Iraq war.

Sir Peter Ricketts, now-Secretary at the Foreign Office, ... Ricketts also said that US officials had raised the prospect of regime change in Iraq, asserting that the British weren't supportive of the idea at the time.

"We were conscious that there were other voices in Washington, some of whom were talking about regime change," Ricketts said.

The head of the British Foreign Office's Middle East department, Sir William Patey, told the inquiry that his office was aware of regime change talk from some parts of the Bush Administration shortly after they took office in 2001.

"In February 2001 we were aware of these drum beats from Washington and internally we discussed it," Patey said. "Our policy was to stay away from that."