In addition the Sunday Times of London reports that Ministers were warned that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. The memo was written in advance of the now famous July 23rd Downing Street meeting that produced the Downing Street memo. The recently leaked minutes from that meeting paint a picture of a Bush administration that had already committed to attacking Iraq, was manipulating intelligence and had already begun bombing Iraq to prepare for the ground invasion.