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ACT OF the CONVERSATION BETWEEN BUSH and AZNAR - CRAWFORD, ROOFING TILES, 22 OF SEPTEMBER OF 2003 Bush warned Aznar that it would be in Bagdad in March with or without resolution of the UN the president of the Government requested aid to surpass the opposition of the Spanish public opinion Four weeks before the invasion of Iraq, that took place at night from the 19 to the 20 of March of 2003, George W. Bush maintained in public their exigency to Sadam Hussein in the following terms: disarmament or war. Behind closed doors, Bush recognized that the war was inevitable. During one it releases conversation deprived with then Spanish president, Jose Maria Aznar, celebrated Saturday 22 of February of 2003 in the farm of Crawford, Roofing tiles, Bush made clear that the moment had arrived for undoing of Sadam. "They are left two weeks. In two weeks we will be militarily ready. We will be in Bagdad at the end of March ", said to him to Aznar. Within this plan, Bush had finished accepting, the 31 of January of 2003 - after an interview with British prime minister, Tony Blair -, to introduce a last diplomatic maneuver: the proposal of one second resolution of the Security Council of United Nations. Its objective: to open the legal door to the unilateral war that the U.S.A. was prepared to trigger with than 200,000 soldiers prepared more in the region to attack. Bush was conscious of the internal difficulties of Blair and it did not know those of Aznar. Only seven days before that meeting in the farm of Crawford, three million people were pronounced in several cities of Spain against the imminent war. "We needed that you help us with our public opinion", requests Aznar. Bush explains the reach to him of the new resolution that thinks to present/display: "the resolution will be done to the measurement of which ayudarte can. It gives a little the content the same me ". To which Aznar responds: "that text would help Us to be able to cosponsor it and to be its coauthors and to obtain that much people sponsor it". Aznar, then, is offered to give European political cover to Bush, in union with Blair. The dream of Aznar to lay the foundations a relation with the U.S.A., following the example of the United Kingdom, was on the verge of becoming reality. Aznar had traveled the 20 of February with its wife, Ana Bottle, to the U.S.A. having done a scale in Mexico to persuade (unfruitfully) president Vicente Fox of the necessity to support to Bush. The 21, the pair, accompanied by the collaborators of the president, arrived at Roofing tiles. Aznar and its wife lodged in the house of guests of the farm. In the meeting of the following day, Saturday, president Bush, his then adviser of National Security, Condoleezza Rice, and the person in charge of European subjects of the National Security Council participated, Daniel Fried. On the other hand, they accompany to Aznar its adviser by international policy, Alberto Sheep, and the ambassador of Spain in Washington, Javier Rupérez. Bush and Aznar maintained, as it leaves from the encounter, a telephone conversation to four bands with British prime minister, Tony Blair, and the president of the Italian Government, Silvio Berlusconi. Rupérez ambassador also translated of the English for Aznar and of the Italian for Condoleezza Rice; other two interpreters made their work for Bush and its collaborators. It was Rupérez that was in charge to elaborate the act-summary of the conversation in a memorandum that has remained secret until today. The conversation makes an impression by its direct, friendly tone and until threatening, when, for example, it talks about the necessity that countries like Mexico, Chile, Angola, Cameroun and Russia, members of the Security Council of the UN, vote the new resolution as a sample of friendship towards the U.S.A. or relies on the consequences. The null expectation in the work of the inspectors, whose head is noticed, Hans Blix, it had disassembled only one week ago, the 14 of February, the arguments exposed by the North American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, before the Security Council the 5 of February of 2003, with "supported solid data" warmly by the Spanish Secretary of State, Ana Palace. Data that the own Powell described, later, like a set of falsifications. The report of Blix According to Blix, Iraq was taking steps towards an active cooperation to solve the pending subjects of disarmament. Its tone had been less critical than the one of its report of the 27 of January of 2003. "Since we arrived at Iraq three ago months we have made more than 400 inspection without previous warning in about 300 places. Until now, the inspectors have not found any of the prohibited arms... If Iraq is decided to cooperate still more closely the period of disarmament through them inspection can still be brief ", it indicated the head of inspectors. The chief of a main directorate of the Organism the International of Energi'a Ato'mica (OIEA), Mohamed the Baradei, informed the 14 into February of that still they were to clarify some technical questions; but, he added, "are not left disarmament problems already to solve". According to he said, one had not been proves some of which in Iraq activities nuclear or relative to the nuclear energy were being carried out, another clear one you lie of which affirmed Powell on the Iraqian nuclear program. As much the first fruits of the inspection work as the conclusion of the preparations of the U.S.A. took to Bush to fix the beginning of the combat operation towards the date of the 10 of March of 2003, to which nine days were added to obtain the second resolution. The process of moral persuasion to which to Aznar and Palace were led telephone call and bilateral meeting did not manage to reunite more than four votes: the three promoters and Bulgaria. 9 votes were necessary. The failure of this legal cover of the imminent war took to Bush to decide with Blair and Aznar the celebration, the 16 of March of 2003, of a summit in the Islands You embarrass, place suggested by Aznar like alternative to the Bermuda islands for a reason that he himself explained to Bush: "the single name of those islands goes associate to an article to dress that indeed it is not adapted for the gravity of the moment at which we were". There, that 16 of March, Bush, Blair and Aznar decided to replace al Security Council of United Nations and usurped their functions to declare by their account and risk the war against Iraq. In the morning of the 17 of March, the ambassador of the United Kingdom before the UN announced in New York the retirement of the second resolution. A defeat in the voting had complicated plus the race towards the war. The COUNTRY offers to its readers in exclusive right the act-summary of the conversation.