Please DU this yahoo article on British memo

[Douglas Carpenter]

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Here is the link for yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_postwar

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1. Here are four paragraphs of the article.

U.K. Memo Said to Question Postwar Plan 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A staff paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair eight months before the invasion of Iraq concluded that U.S. military officials were not planning adequately for a postwar occupation, The Washington Post reported.

"A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise," authorities of the briefing memo wrote, according to the Post. "As already made clear, the U.S. military plans are virtually silent on this point. Washington could look to us to share a disproportionate share of the burden."

The eight-page memo was written in advance of a July 23, 2002, meeting at Blair's Downing Street offices, the Post said in Sunday editions.

It said the memo and other internal British government documents were originally obtained by Michael Smith of the London Sunday Times and that excerpts made available to Post were confirmed as authentic by British sources who sought anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

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2. Done & kickin' n/t

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