Downing Street Memo, Say What?

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“In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don't expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.” May 30, 2005, The Star Tribune (link to article http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/... )

May 1, 2005, The London Times article; The Downing Street Memo. Classified information released and reveals origins of initiation of war in Iraq. (link to article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,... )

June 7, 2005, No media coverage in USA on this important document, save one lone newspaper, The Star Tribune. <snip>

If it’s not newsworthy, not notable, it really does beg the question, doesn’t it, of why it is not. <snip>

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/military_families_iraq/116399

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1. Coming up with a real solution to the root causes of terrorism

isn't profitable. Throwing other nations out of a country where they were doing business and then taking over that country is. Any questions?

Without terrah, gw wouldn't exist.... without lies, the invasion of Iraq wouldn't exist... without a congress with a backbone, a proper impeachment process won't exist either.