Dissent is the highest form of patriotism -Howard Zinn

Sunday, June 05, 2005

The Downing Street "Memo"

The Downing Street "Memo" is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002—a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003.

"The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions."

Downingstreetmemo.com

"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy…. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

This better get media and political attention.

The Smoking Gun.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jim said...

Sam, here is an excellent run down of the secret way our government went to war against Iraq:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18034

8:55 AM

 

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