Billmon: Downing Street Memo II

And like most sequels (The Godfather II being the big exception) it's not nearly as fresh or powerful as the original:

Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Iraq Plan

A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country.

The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing Street meeting on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterparts the potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague Iraq.

The July 23 meeting was the same one that produced the Downing Street Memo -- which has never quite made it onto the front page of the Washington Post, despite its explosive revelation that Britain's intelligence agency, MI6, knew in the summer of 2002 that the Bush administration was "fixing" the intelligence on WMD in Iraq.