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The Downing Street Minutes Hearings
By Grace Reid
This one is pretty hard to write. The title comes from Martin Luther King’s 1963, "Why We Can’t Wait." That, and his "Letter from a Birmhingam Jail" also 1963 are the sources for the quotes here.
It has probably occurred to very few that the struggle to seek justice in the matter of the illegal war in Iraq, and the seeking of a Resolution of Inquiry into the impeachable offenses of GWB in the illegal war Iraq, have any correllaries (…)

Parma- Sirens blasted in the distance. "Welcome home" signs rose above the crowd. Children frantically waved American and Marine Corps flags.
More than 200 people paced the sidewalk looking at their watches. It was almost time. When a police motorcade appeared in the distance, a woman screamed, "He’s here."
A wounded Priestly returned from Iraq to a hero’s welcome on Saturday, as well-wishers - many wearing T-shirts bearing a photo of the Marine - crowded his Brookdale Avenue (…)

A startling report has emerged yesterday that the U.S. has used napalm fire bombs in Iraq and then lied about it to the British government.
Background
Consider the sorts of weapons that international law generally prohibits: unconventional weapons used to attack the civilian population of a country, either directly or indirectly by leaving behind hazardous remnants.
One example of such heinous weapons are those enriched with depleted uranium left over from either nuclear weapons or (…)

The significance of what could happen Sunday night in Detroit is mind-blowing. Imagine, just one player, a Wallace or Duncan realizing the true power they have. As athletes on the world stage, they are [former] working class joe’s with a chance to speak out to the world on live tv. If just one superstar were to... interupt the game, STOP life as normal- if only for a few minutes... STOP the game and tell America on Live tv, "The Downing Street Memo is the smoking gun! Impeach Bush!" it could (…)

The so-called Downing Street memos, now seven in number, have been dismissed by some in the press as "old news," but the same could be said of the Pentagon Papers when they were published. As in the previous case, the shock value comes from their official nature, and they bring key questions about deceit and poor judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war back to the forefront for public debate.
(June 17, 2005) — On public radio this week, Walter Pincus, the senior national security reporter (…)

Bush wounded by anger over war Tony Allen-Mills, Washington
INCREASING American concern about the conduct of the war in Iraq has forced President George W Bush to sideline some of his domestic priorities in favour of a new public relations drive to bolster confidence in the coalition effort.
Iraq will return to the top of the American political agenda this week when the president delivers the first of several speeches aimed at reversing a damaging slide in his approval ratings.
Ibrahim (…)

New: See the 2nd video exam that got the Unilect Patriot decertified in PA:
The videos show that: the votes are lost because of the defects in the voting machines. The fault is not the election director’s The election officials/precinct workers cannot prevent most or all of the undervotes The votes can be changed on the central tabulator without leaving an audit trail
The tapes have been ripped to a video format the should be view-able under Windows. If you’ve got BitTorrent — which (…)

Guess Who’s Going to Hollywood with Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia this August 2005? Your election Officials?
See the event description of the National Conference Beverly Hills/Hollywood August 2005, where big voting machine companies will wine and dine our election officials while they get "educated and trained":
National Conference Beverly Hills/Hollywood August 2005:
*Welcome reception sponsored by Diebold *Dinner and dance sponsored by Sequoia *Graduation Luncheon and Awards (…)

Bush and Blair are claiming they went through the UN- they Did Not - they pulled the 2nd Resolution before the vote. Bush and Blair Did Not get UN approval but they invaded anyway.
from the Downing Street Minutes
Britain’s [CIA] Chief told Blair:
"The NSC had no patience with the UN route..."
Bush’s only response to the Downing Street Memo was at the June 8th press conference with Tony Blair. Guess what - they both agreed - of course they didn’t ’fix the facts’. Really, they (…)

A Bi-partisan group of Members of Congress - two Republicans and two Democrats - introduced the Homeward Bound Act on June 16, 2005 to begin the process of putting in place an exit strategy from Iraq. The resolution calls for bringing the troops home no later than October 1, 2006. Below are statements from the website of three of the original co-sponsors. Two other Members immediately joined as sponsors Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Martin Meehan (D-MA).
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH):
The Beginning (…)