A memo leaked this week from Spain has the international media highly agitated, slapping one another on the back, confident they have the smoking gun on President George Bush.  As they are wont to do, these pixel-stained wretches have ordered up parts of the transcript as if it were an a la carte menu.  PajamasMedia posts this edited and updated article by its Senior Editor and Spanish correspondent.

Jose Guardia, a veteran blogger from Barcelona, has translated the leaked 2003 transcript of a conversation between Bush and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar.  He fills in the blanks and provides the most telling revelations - the ones your mainstream media ignore. 

“The Egyptians are talking with Saddam Hussein. It seems he has hinted he’d be willing to leave if he’s allowed to take 1 billion dollars and all the information on WMDs.”

All the information on WMDs? What would that imply to Bush and to Aznar? And this was coming from Egyptian Intelligence in direct communication with Saddam. Wouldn’t the normal person assume from that that Saddam had WMDs or at the very least was seriously engaged in creating them? Why would he wish to preserve this information if he didn’t have any forbidden weapons programs is something that war critics should reconcile. I guess all the people who are trumpeting this leak will now stop saying that Bush lied and mislead us on the WMD issue. Can’t have it both ways. But I won’t hold my breath.

That is the astonishing revelation in the memo, but Bush’s critics entirely ignore it.