With the recent revelations about the January 31, 2003 meeting between Bush and Blair, one can't help but puzzle over the national media's yawning response to the charge that Bush plotted to provoke Iraq into a war he insists he never wanted. I suspect that, like the earlier Downing Street Memos , the press views this memo as old news and therefore not worth their time. After all, didn't Mickey Herskowitz, the veteran reporter from Houston, say that Bush privately admitted to him in 1999 that he wanted to take out Saddam Hussein? Didn't former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill allege that Bush openly talked about the necessity of forcing regime change in Iraq just ten days after his 2001 inauguration? And didn't former counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke insist that Bush and Rumsfeld were intent on finding a link between Iraq and 9/11 the day after the attacks? Besides, it's not like Americans actually believe anything this administration says, so why should the press chase a dead story about some wacky thought Bush had to disguise a plane and set a trap for Saddam? Because it's a huge story nobody's pieced together.