MI6 undermining the Iraq war?

The name's Rycroft -- MATTHEW Rycroft. Author of the Downing Street memo. A couple of days ago, I discussed the man's true background as an MI6 operative -- and I offered my view that the head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, also known as C, was the man behind the leak of the memo.

Now we learn more from Rycroft. A new book called Lawless World elides over his spooky history, instead referring to him as Tony Blair's personal aide. Thanks to Rycroft, we now have "fly on the wall" access to notes detailing phone conversations between Blair and Bush. The results should, if given proper publicity, prove even more humiliating to Dubya.

Rycroft would not be in a position to do this if he did not have the go-ahead from higher-ups. I am convinced that MI6 is now actively trying to deep-six the Iraq misadventure.

More from Robert Parry here:

But Bush’s deeper worry was that chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix would conclude that Hussein’s government was cooperating in the search for weapons of mass destruction, thus delaying or blocking U.S.-led military action. Bush’s “biggest concern was looking weak,” the British document said.

A bit more:

Indeed, the evidence pointed to a long-term Bush strategy of preventing any serious investigation of Iraq’s alleged WMD stockpiles so as not to remove this central rationale for war...

In that sense, the newly disclosed British notes – like the earlier Downing Street Memo showing that Bush wanted the intelligence to be "fixed" around his Iraq policy – simply add more weight to the already strong case on Bush’s duplicity.

Careful, Mr. Bush: Your Big SIS is angry with you...and she seems to be on the rag.