Behind the Downing Street Memos----Lurks the specter of treason. He-

[rodeodance]

Justin--- was on Ron Reagan--"Connections"--msnbc-today--he did well.
also--great article with clickable links to stories he discusses.



http://www.etherzone.com/2005/raim061705.shtml

> June 17, 2005

> Behind the Downing Street Memos-Lurks the specter of treason

> by Justin Raimondo
>
> Everyone is talking about the Downing Street memos, and they are important – although not for the reasons generally assumed.
>
> Naturally, we covered these on Antiwar.com when they were first published, but now that the "mainstream" media is finally paying attention it behooves us to go over them with a fine-tooth comb, in an attempt to tease some meaning out of the daily slaughter on the evening news. The key paragraph in the first memo, and the one most cited, is this:
>
> "C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
>
> The mysterious "C" is none other than Richard Dearlove, then head of MI6, Britain's intelligence service, no doubt conferring with his American equivalent, then-CIA director George Tenet. The date – July 23, 2002 – is significant: if you'll remember, at that time our lying president was telling us that war with Iraq would be a "last resort." Yeah, sure. Not that anybody really believed him, but it's significant that he still felt it necessary to make the effort to deceive. Meanwhile, the War Party was plotting to pull a fast one, using every trick in the book to gin up a war with Iraq – a constant stream of wild stories presented in the guise of "intelligence" and planted in a compliant media, all positing "weapons of mass destruction" poised to hit American cities........

[Erika]

1. One of our presses shames will be their kneeling to W

during his insane attack on Iraq. These people did not hurt us or threaten our security. But Faux/Bushco News made out as if we didn't all salute Bush that we were traitors and haters of our military.

What garbage.

[dbeach]

2. "the specter of treason" with a ghost of a chance

is why its not nice to say anything bad about the dead

3000 dead 9/11/01
over 1700 Iraq
hundreds more in GWOT
thousands and thousands of muslims and arabs ..some very innocent

i'd say the ghosts following herr privleged dictator are none too happy with same dictator

[TahitiNut]

3. KSOTO

If a foreign nation, namely Israel, was involved in an effort to lie us into war by feeding us false "intelligence" – and planting such intelligence via its agents in the U.S. government – then the American people have a right to know.

How can any reasonably sane, intelligent, and aware person not know that the "the Butcher of Beirut" Sharon's ultra-right, Likud-Slomtzion militaristic government helped "salt" the intelligence mines and concoct the frauds? It's been patently obvious since 2001. :shrug:

[evermind]

4. Great article. This guy has read his DSM! (n/t)