Don't forget DSM!! This is a great article. Hope you like it.

[BigBearJohn]

"What is surprising, is how little attention has received in some of the most important news media in the United States despite its being an official document that contradicts the North American version of the beginning of the war." --Jorge Ramos Avalos, Washington correspondent for Univision.

The Downing Street Memos have provided an unexpected fright for the minority of Americans who are aware of them.

It's not that presidents lie about the wars they send other people's kids off to fight. And it's not even that the media in this country has grown lazy, intimidated and sycophantic. It's the degree to which this is true, and the deterioration of American democracy to which it testifies. At the same moment we were revisiting the Watergate story and celebrating the dogged persistence that unmasked the crimes of Richard Nixon, the media largely ignored what is one of the biggest stories since the end of the Cold War.

Five main indictments emanate from this growing series of leaked documents. First, that the Bush administration decided to go to war earlier than was publicly stated. Second, that the reasons he gave for the war were bogus. Third, that Bush lied in saying that the war could have been avoided. Fourth, that the war actually began almost a year earlier than is assumed. And fifth, that the administration did almost no planning for the aftermath of the invasion.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050714075707224

[KingFlorez]

1. We can't forget about this

We've gotten so caught up in Rove, we're forgetting about it. The more we talk about the DSM, the better.

[The Traveler]

2. Rove and DSM are two facets

of the same demonic stone. They are two manifestations of the same phenomenon. There is a distinct relationship between the two events.

[BigBearJohn]

4. I agree wholeheartedly

[The Traveler]

6. Once again

you prove to be perceptive, Big John of the Bears. We must keep educating. The two events, and other examples of bungling incomptence and outright criminality, are but elements of a pattern.

[jojo54]

3. This has to intertwine with Rovegate, Iraq etc. etc.

But what's happening with the investigation? Anybody know what's going on?

[ray of light]

5. join the after downing street org 3rd anniverary July 22

July 22!

[BigBearJohn]

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