Breaking News: BUSH Transcripts Leaked By Spanish Gov Official: EFFORTS FOR PEACE IN IRAQ WERE A SHAM.

Hat tip to Josh Marshall!

From TPM:

My ability to bring you the full details on this are, to put it charitably, limited by my inability to accurately translate Spanish. But it seems someone in the Spanish government has leaked to El Pais transcripts of conversations between President Bush and then Spanish Prime Minister Aznar just before the outbreak of the Iraq War. The gist seems to be that Bush was rather candid about the fact that the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis were a sham and that the war was a done deal.

Not a surprise certainly, but interesting to see it revealed as it was discussed by the actors at the time.

Apparently El Pais is going to be publishing more . If you read Spanish, take a look and tell us what you see.

Late Update: El Pais has now posted the full transcript:

Headline in Spanish: Bush avisó a Aznar de que estaría en Bagdad en marzo con o sin resolución de la ONU.

Headline in English: Bush warned Aznar that it would be in Baghdad in March with or without resolution of the UN.

Here is an excerpt in English from El Pais:

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 its 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-, introducing 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.