Reply #27: I agree there's more out there [View All]

[Jack Rabbit]

The MSM has been slow to come around and the Washington Post in particular is putting up a mighty resistance to the obvious.

However, the DSM shows that Bush's allies in the British government knew that the case against Saddam was "thin" and, in regard to facts and intelligence reports that could be used to support a case for war, that to simply allow the chips to fall where they may was not going to be sufficient. The documents show unequivocally that the regime made the decision to go to war independent of facts and then looked for facts to support the decision.

This is not, in my judgment, a "smoking gun". A smoking gun (i.e., evidence that would prove the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt) would be documents similar to the DSM that originated in the White House or Pentagon. However, the DSM could support a case for impeachment.

The Downing Street documents may not be the conclusive criminal evidence against the regime we'd like to have, but they probably lay on the last thin layer of dirt covering the smoking gun.