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  • What Did Bush Decide and When Did He Decide It?
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street Memo reported that in a July 23, 2002 meeting between Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet, attendees of the meeting discussed the fact that President Bush had already made up his mind to attack Iraq. According to the minutes of the meeting:
    “There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action.”
    Yet, as the record below proves, President Bush claimed over and over after July (…)

  • US Army hhires firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis with outsourced Propaganda
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, June 10, 2005 by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) Psychological Warfare Effort to be Outsourced Army command hires three firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis by James W Crawley WASHINGTON — The U.S. Special Operations Command has hired three firms to produce newspaper stories, television broadcasts and Web sites to spread American propaganda overseas.
    The Tampa-based military headquarters, which oversees commandos and psychological warfare, may spend up to (…)

  • Bush and ’The Memo’
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editorial
    PRESIDENT BUSH apparently thinks he can dismiss the damning "Downing Street memo" with a few glib words.
    If he is right, it is a sad commentary on the state of American democracy and values.
    The memo, recounting the details of a July 23, 2002, meeting at British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official residence on 10 Downing St., strongly suggested that the message had been sent across the Atlantic that the Bush White House had made the decision to wage war on Iraq. The minutes (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo Reveals Blood on the Hands of Our Complicit Corporate Media
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ...and the Hijacking of Our Collective Fear
    by Anthony Wade
    On September the Eleventh, 2001, our worst fears were realized. I will never forget that day and traveling home by subway in New York City. Looking into the shell-shocked faces of people I never met, would never see again, realizing how truly close we all were. We were bound together by the experience. A collective outrage, a collective understanding that we were in this together. Unfortunately, some took this opportunity to (…)

  • In shying away from 2002 Downing Street Memo, a timid press shirks its duty
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The coverage, or lack of coverage, of a story regarding notes from a meeting of British intelligence officials dubbed the "Downing Street Memo’’ is quite a mystery.
    If fact, coverage has been curiously meager, although the contents of the memo were reported in early May by the Sunday Times of London. The intervening weeks have seen the American media focus on runaway brides (Jennifer Wilbanks), runaway mouths (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) and a runaway Congress (…)

  • Senior US military chief admits insurgents are "good, honest" Iraqis
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’Good and honest’ Iraqis fighting US forces By Phil Sands, Staff Reporter Tikrit:
    A senior US military chief has admitted "good, honest" Iraqis are fighting American forces.
    Major General Joseph Taluto said he could understand why some ordinary people would take up arms against the US military because "they’re offended by our presence".
    In an interview with Gulf News, he said: "If a good, honest person feels having all these Humvees driving on the road, having us moving people out of (…)

  • Former CIA director calls for Immediate Iraq withdrawal
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former CIA Director John M. Deutch, institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that the United States is not making progress toward key objectives in Iraq and called for American troops to pull out "as soon as possible" during a speech Tuesday (June 7) at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
    Deutch, who delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the honor society’s annual Literary Exercises, served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton from May 1995 until (…)

  • Ask the God Damn Question!
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jesse, Editor - TvNewsLIES.org June 7, 2005
    George W. Bush, during his press conference with Tony Blair, 6/7/05 said, “Saddam would not comply.” (Comply to what? We are never told! But apparently whatever he did not comply to was important enough to start a war over but not important enough to ever explain to the world!)
    After a single question about the Downing Street Memo (with no follow up) was asked, (in between the questions about Africa - the American media suddenly discovered (…)

  • Downing Street Memo proves invasion wasn’t ’last resort’: Impeach Bush Now!
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Green Party: Impeach Bush Now! The Downing Street Memo proves that invasion of Iraq wasn’t the ’last resort’ but Bush’s intent all along, leading to cooked intelligence and other impeachable offenses; Greens note bipartisan and media complicity in overlooking evidence of deceit, urge public protest WASHINGTON — June 9 - Green leaders reiterated the party’s July 2003 call for impeachment of Bush, and called on all Americans outraged by the Bush Administration’s list of deceptions, (…)

  • Downing Street minutes that lasted for months
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is not that often, we have to admit, that an item posted one night on Times Online is still getting hundreds of thousands of hits six weeks later, especially when what bloggers like to call ’the mainstream media’ have largely ignored its existence.
    NI_MPU(’middle’);But that is what happened to the now infamous secret Downing Street memo, posted on the site on May 1 alongside a story by Michael Smith of The Sunday Times. And if the document has taken on a life of its own it is largely (…)