Did the Brits scam America into the Iraq war?

Yellowcake claim was fed to US by British Intel

Secret UK memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

Reuters

A British Army soldier investigates a large fire near Basra's Shuiba refinery

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

Iraq's burgeoning oil industry: Click HERE to upload graphic (160k)

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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