Another Great Downing Street Memo Article

Here is a link to a very good article in The Nation regarding the Downing Street Memos.

The Latest Downing Street Memos
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=3539

The Downing Street Memo

It has been a while since my last post because, honestly, it is all just too depressing. We have a president that does not seem able to tell the truth. The main stream media refuses to cover anything that in any way might contradict the Bush administration.

The primary example of this is the so called Downing Street Memo. This isn’t actually a memo but minutes from a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in July of 2003, eight months before our last resort invasion of Iraq. This document discusses how intelligence was “fixed” to justify the war. It shows that the Bush administration had already decided to invade Iraq even while George W. Bush was telling the American public that no decision had been made and that he didn’t want to go to war.

If something like this document had surfaced during the Clinton administration it would have been all over the media and people would have been asking for President Clinton’s head. As it was though, the so called Downing Street Memo broke in the foreign press and has received little attention until very recently in the American press.

Following the release of The Downing Street Memo more documentation has been uncovered by the foreign press, some dating to even prior to the date of The Downing Street Memo, that indicate the British government was concerned about the legality of an Iraq invasion and they were developing a legal justification by blaming the action on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.

All of this sounds like some fantastic espionage novel but it is true. Neither the Downing Street Memo or any of the subsequent leaked documentation has been refuted. Don’t take my word for it. Read it all and judge for yourself.

Excellent information is available at these web sites:

Downingstreetmemo.com
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

Here is the actual memo as published in The London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

Here is an article about the authenticity of the memo.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/britain.war.memo/

Democrats in Congress discussed the memo today.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1657381,00.html

Representative John Conyers Web Site
http://johnconyers.com/

One interesting note about this story is that it originally broke in The Times, a London newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch the owner of FOX New in the United States. I guess he has a little less control over the content of what is published on the other side of the pond ;)

The War Before The War

Here is an interesting article about the bombing of Iraq a month before Congress authorized any action. Bush lies and people keep dying.

The Other Bomb Drops