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  • What will Americans do about the Downing Street memo?
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The murmurs about the Downing Street memo are growing into a louder chorus of outrage. What has been widely reported in the British press and other countries for weeks and months is just now beginning to bubble up over Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton as relevant news.
    For those who don’t know (and it still appears to be many), the Downing Street memo is a confidential British intelligence communication, written months before the war began, that was leaked to the Sunday Times of London. (…)

  • Ralph Nader calls for impeachment: Downing Street Memo is trouble for Bush
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Maybe we don’t want fries with this.
    The winds are shifting in Washington, DC in the wake of the now-infamous Downing Street Memo, a secret document detailing the minutes of a meeting that included British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the chief of Britain’s intelligence agency.
    The memo insinuates that the Bush administration fixed intelligence concerning WMD and terrorism in Iraq and reveals something that many of us in the YES! Weekly newsroom (and most rational Americans) have (…)

  • Yes, they did lie to us
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the US the latest leaked memos are seen as a smoking gun on Iraq, but in Britain we are struggling to keep up
    Jonathan Freedland Wednesday June 22, 2005 The Guardian
    Now try to work this one out. Before the war on Iraq, Britain witnessed a ferocious debate over whether the case for conflict was legal and honest. It culminated in the largest demonstration in the country’s history, as a million or more took to the streets to stop the war. At the same time, the US sleepwalked into (…)

  • Where’s Osama? The Other War We’re Losing
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In view of the steady stream of bad news from Iraq - five dead Marines in Saturday’s paper, two more in Sunday’s, and four soldiers in Monday’s, along with the Ba’athist element of the resistance so "weakened" it is now striking targets in Iran - it is easy to forget that we are fighting, and losing, not one Fourth Generation war but two. Five U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan last week. On June 9, the Washington Post reported that
    "Insurgents linked to the former Taliban regime have (…)

  • House of Representatives announces formation of Out of Iraq caucus - June 21, 2005
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I am here this evening to talk about something new and wonderful that has happened in the Congress of the United States of America. I am here to talk about a new caucus that is named Out of Iraq Caucus. I am here to talk about the men and women of this House who have decided they can be silent no longer. I am here to talk about men and women who represent various points of view relative to support for the President from the time that he first announced he was going (…)

  • Fixed Is Fixed
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He now works at Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour.
    With last week’s hearings on the Downing Street memos concluded, much work lies ahead. Now, the information in the Downing Street memos needs to be collated carefully with evidence from the mainstream media, on the Internet, and from other sources regarding what was going on in top (…)

  • End to occupation pre-condition for reconstruction of Iraq
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRussells Tribunal critical of joint US-EU conference on Iraq, in Brussels on June 22
    On June 22 2005, the United States and the European Union are co-hosting an international conference on Iraq in Brussels, which aims to bolster international support for political and economic reforms and back efforts to draft a constitution for the new Baghdad government.
    The legitimacy and autonomy of this government, installed and completely controlled by the US occupation forces after an illegal and (…)

  • Supporting the troops: House passes bi-partisan ammendment to fund research on Gulf War Syndrome
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman Kucinich offered an amendment to H.R. 2863, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006.
    "Mr. Chairman, this budget-neutral amendment will improve the health of veterans past, present and future by funding research on Gulf War illnesses. I am proud to do so with my colleagues, Mr. Shays, and Mr. Sanders. I thank both of the cosponsors for their commitment to veterans’ health.
    "I would also like to point out that this amendment is endorsed by the American Legion, (…)

  • HOW LONG AGO DID YOU HATE BUSH?
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HOW LONG AGO DID YOU START TO HATE BUSH?
    By Peter Fredson
    June 22, 2005
    This is an off-shoot of the famous WATERGATE question: “What did you know and when did you know it?” It took quite a while for anyone to stay that he knew anything, and even then the object of the investigation played the denial game to the end, but gradually much of the true story oozed out through administration censorship.
    Still today, with Deep Throat revealed, the conspirators are unrepentant, bitter, and (…)

  • Make EVERY Street DOWNING ST. Campaign & Other Activism
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hello boys and girls.
    Well, we had a brief glorious father’s day weekend when AP, USA Today, MSNBC, & ABC (among other MSM) broke-through and provided us with front-page coverage of The Downing Street Minutes and Briefings.
    How sweet it was!
    Now comes the really hard part — Keeping the DSM in the spotlight until George W. Bush is impeached. Already, there have been popular publications dismissing The Downing Street Memos as "old news" and pretending that there is "nothing to see (…)