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  • War in Iraq has gone too far
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This war in Iraq has just gone too far and it’s now time to start talking impeachment.
    With all the evidence available, and the new information emerging regarding the lies, twisted truths and selective intelligence that brought us into an unprovoked and unnecessary war, it’s time for the nation to hold responsible the man sitting where the buck stops at the White House. I find it untenable that we would almost impeach one president for engineering and condoning a break-in and impeach (…)

  • Administration officials expressed misgivings on Iraq October 8 2002:Backs up Downing St Memo
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war.
    These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses — including distorting his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network — have (…)

  • Therefore....
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We all get on here and vent,crtitcize,comment and complain but to what end?Is the main purpose to make us feel O.K. knowing we have someone out there who agrees with us?Mr. Bush was re elected,Blair was re elected.Canada has corruption scandals that the World could not comprehend but will re elect the same government.I don’t see any time table for U.S. withdrawing from Iraq.We all know, but nothing changes.Better to watch Manchester United or the New York Yankees.The Black Panthers are (…)

  • Protest outside TV studio draws attention to Downing Street Memo(Minutes)
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TAMPA - Just a stone’s throw away from a life-size gorilla dressed in military fatigues was another oddity along Kennedy Boulevard Thursday - people protesting about a memo.
    "Did you get the memo?" read the fliers.
    "Air the truth!" said a poster held by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph F. Bohren, outside the WTVT-Ch. 13 studios with about 10 others.
    They were there because of what has become known as the "Downing Street Memo," minutes from a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (…)

  • Memo to Mainstream Media
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have a three-word response to the media frenzy that followed revelation of the long-secret identity of Deep Throat: Downing Street Memo.
    Here’s what John Dean, a key Watergate figure, wrote about Dubya’s case for the Iraq war in a June 2003 column for www.findlaw.com: "To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. . . . Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be a ’high (…)

  • Secret no more: Downing Street memo
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
    IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
    Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
    This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
    John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC (…)

  • Administration’s offenses impeachable
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s consider an item from the news of about two weeks ago:
    A British citizen leaked a memo to London’s Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the England’s MI-6, the equivalent of the CIA. On July 23, 2002, Dearlove briefed Tony Blair about the meeting. He said that Bush was determined to attack Iraq. He said that Bush knew that U.S. intelligence had no (…)

  • The cat is out of the bag now
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sick Strategies For Senseless Slaughter
    The murderous fools are not trying to end the war; they’re trying to keep it going as long as they can
    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    5-24-05
    The cat is out of the bag now.
    It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities in the past few years, although it’s hard to prioritize that claim because of the level and frequency of barbaric acts (…)

  • 38 YEARS LATER
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And there is no peace. There is no security.
    After the Six-Day War, we could have achieved peace. We could have given back the conquered territories to the Palestinian people and enabled them to set up their state there.
    But the craving for territory made us crazy. Instead of choosing peace and security, we chose settlements.
    The occupation has exacted a terrible price from both peoples: human, social, moral, political and economic.
    ENOUGH!

  • Kerry to bring issue of Downing Street Minutes/Memo to Senate
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW BEDFORD — Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday called on Americans to be more aware of the "bait and switch" Iraq war and the "hollowing out" of the Army in the pursuit of a mistaken policy.
    In a swing through SouthCoast, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee attacked the priorities of the Republican Party and President Bush, elaborating on what they are sacrificing — health care for children, infrastructure, Social Security — in the pursuit of tax cuts.
    "The Holy Grail of the Republican (…)