Originally Posted by Rochard

You need to remember the time frame here; This 2002 - After Kuwait (1991) but shortly before the 2003 invasion. About this time there was a lot of discussion about what Iraq was doing with WMD, and the inspectors were being jerked around and eventually kicked out of Iraq. The memo says "On Iraq, Blair will be with us should military operations be necessary". What the memo does not say is "Let's bitch smack Iraq around next year for giggles".

This is hardly a smoking gun. I would venture to guess that similar discussions went on with other government leaders as well.

You also need to remember that most of the larger military forces of the world have contingency plans for every possible scenario. Somewhere in a vault at the Pentagon or where ever is a set of plans to invade both Mexico and Canada if the need ever arises, and every few years they dust them off and re-evaluate. This is what the military does.