Backup Facts for Downing Street Minutes -Send this article from The Nation

[cyberpj]

This is documented info to send to ALL congresspeople to backup the information in the Downing Street Minutes. Since Bush and Blair are brushing it off --here is information that can't be denied.

The Nation
posted June 1, 2005 (web only)

The Other Bomb Drops
Jeremy Scahill

The implications of this information for US lawmakers are profound. It was already well known in Washington and international diplomatic circles that the real aim of the US attacks in the no-fly zones was not to protect Shiites and Kurds. But the new disclosures prove that while Congress debated whether to grant Bush the authority to go to war, while Hans Blix had his UN weapons-inspection teams scrutinizing Iraq and while international diplomats scurried to broker an eleventh-hour peace deal, the Bush Administration was already in full combat mode--not just building the dossier of manipulated intelligence, as the Downing Street memo demonstrated, but acting on it by beginning the war itself. And according to the Sunday Times article, the Administration even hoped the attacks would push Saddam into a response that could be used to justify a war the Administration was struggling to sell.

On the eve of the official invasion, on March 8, 2003, Bush said in his national radio address: "We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force." Bush said this after nearly a year of systematic, aggressive bombings of Iraq, during which Iraq was already being disarmed by force, in preparation for the invasion to come. By the Pentagon's own admission, it carried out seventy-eight individual, offensive airstrikes against Iraq in 2002 alone.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050613&s=scahill

[Coexist]

1. I always send these things to key Senators and Reps

is there a list somewhere to send to all of them? To save time?

[byronm]

2. It amazes me

our reps and senators don't already have access to or research on this information already.

[cyberpj]

3. Some may have top notch staffers but we should still let them know

that WE know.

I think it can't hurt to push them some to SPEAK THE F*CK UP!

Ya know?

[Coexist]

6. my thoughts too.

they might have someone brief them on the news of the day, but if a staffer let's them know that they received 200 copies of a certain article, it may mean a little more to them.

[cyberpj]

17. kick

[babylonsister]

4. This link is helpful:

http://www.democrats.org/media/index.html

Edit to add: if this is the same link I recall, you can only select 5 addresses at a time.

[Coexist]

7. thanks- 5 is better than one at a time!

[cyberpj]

5. The complete list of email addresses for congress, senate & governors

Someone posted this yesterday - created by conservative site but still a valuable resource

THE COMPLETE LIST OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES FOR CONGRESS, SENATE & GOVERNORS
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

[cyberpj]

18. kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Jeremy Scahill was on Democracy Now! on Monday--->link

video/audio/transcript here...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/1328242

"It was a huge air assault: Approximately 100 US and British planes flew from Kuwait into Iraqi airspace. At least seven types of aircraft were part of this massive operation, including US F-15 Strike Eagles and Royal Air Force Tornado ground-attack planes. They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units, communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist. This was war.

"But there was a catch: The war hadn't started yet, at least not officially. This was September 2002--a month before Congress had voted to give President Bush the authority he used to invade Iraq, two months before the United Nations brought the matter to a vote and more than six months before "shock and awe" officially began."


Jeremy Scahill, Producer and Correspondent, Democracy Now.


He pretty much lays into Clinton, for the longest sustained bombing since Vietnam.

[cthrumatrix]

9. if sooo profound...why no action...?

[cherbear211]

10. For NC...

The website below has 3 email addresses: 1) one that goes to all NC legislators, 2) all NC senate members and 3) all NC house members.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/NCGAInfo/Directories/emailinfo.html

[cyberpj]

11. Thanks for posting. And WELCOME TO DU!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

12. Hi cherbear211!!

Welcome to DU!! toast:

[Just Me]

13. Wow!!! Jeremy lays out a helluva' strong case for impeachment!!!

Great post!!! Thank you.

:bounce:

[cyberpj]

14. check out this thread for more leaked info re pre-planning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3809302&mesg_id=3809302&page=

and a great video too
http://www.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/warofterror/iraqtonytruth.htm

[cyberpj]

20. kick for the nighttime crowd - eom.

[cthrumatrix]

15. so what are the procesutors waiting for???

[slor]

16. Thanks for posting! n/t

[savannahana]

19. thank you.

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