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  • IS ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING?
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe I should ask if anyone out there is SCREAMING! I know I am, and I’m ready to blow.
    The corporate media are the common enemy of the American people and they have to be treated as such. They have to be made to feel the anger of the public. They have to be made to feel ashamed of what they are doing.
    The man holding the news conference used that phrase again, the one about our winning in Iraq, and they let him get away with it. The pseudo journalists (…)

  • Downing Street Minutes - Throw your congresscritter a life-saver
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRATEGY SESSION: for when you call your Congressperson/Senator, who may have voted for the IWR, and, having done so, may be too fearful or ashamed to admit he or she made a mistake... MAYBE all they’re looking for is a graceful way out...
    Please consider planting this seed.
    Please hear me out -
    ALL they have to say is TEN WORDS: "Because I TRUSTED my president. And he LIED to me."
    Two little sentences. Five words per sentence. That’s ALL any of them have to say, if they voted for (…)

  • WHY RUMSFELD SHOULD GO
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Let’s give Donald Rumsfeld the benefit of the doubt. He’s not a war criminal. He never wrote any memo authorizing specific techniques for abusing prisoners. He doesn’t believe in abusing people. He’s an amusing guy. He used to be a media superstar in the Bush family firmament. The President called him the best Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
    But it’s time for him to go. And here’s why.
    One of the principal reasons the United States has a Secretary of (…)

  • Israel tit-for-tat death claims
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Two Israeli soldiers have alleged that they were ordered to carry out revenge attacks on Palestinian police after six of their comrades were killed.
    The unnamed soldiers made the charges, which relate to events three years ago, to an organisation which gathers evidence on Israeli army abuses.
    At least 15 Palestinians were killed in response to the troops’ deaths.
    The Israeli army said it had targeted policemen who actively assisted militants in carrying out killings.
    But it is not (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)