PNAC Pawn Tries to Spin DSM

[tritsofme]

Here's their latest line of spin:

A Fix on Downing Street

From the June 20, 2005 issue: About that supposed smoking-gun memo.
by Tod Lindberg
06/20/2005, Volume 010, Issue 38

AS LEAKED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS GO, the "Downing Street Memo" is pretty sexy. Not actually a memo but the official notes of a July 23, 2002, meeting in the British prime minister's office, the document reproduces the thoughts and concerns about Iraq of Tony Blair and his key advisers, including his foreign and defense secretaries, his attorney general, and "C"--code for Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service, recently returned from high-level meetings in Washington. Rarely do you find an open window on such a high-level discussion, especially on a matter that will take a country to war a scant nine months later.

The Sunday Times published the document on May 1, along with an accompanying article of some 2,000 words sexing up its contents. Other British media also reported on it, as did the U.S. press, with a scanting yawn.

Anybody who thinks criticism of the "mainstream media" is the special province of right-wing America hasn't been reading the left's complaints about the perfidious media indifference to the memo. For Rep. John Conyers, the leading partisan Democratic websites, and the newly registered downingstreetmemo.com and afterdowningstreet.org, among others, as well as for the hundreds of thousands claiming to have signed petitions demanding a congressional investigation, the "Downing Street Memo" is the smoking gun, proof positive that the Bush administration--well, what exactly?

As C's comments are summarized, he had found in Washington that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of going to war to remove Saddam, "justified by
the conjunction of terrorism and WMD"; C went on: "Military action was now seen as inevitable." According to comments attributed to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, "The case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/719ltdun.asp

This guy is a PNACer to boot:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/russia-20040928.htm


And not surprisingly is printed in Murdoch's neocon mag.

[Coexist]

1. ::::::yawn::::::::

this is an argument?
The best the PNAC can do? Puh-lease.

[xray s]

2. fascist liar

When confronted with truth, just rearrange the words to make it a lie.

These are the actual words in the minutes; "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."

So they change it to this; "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of going to war to remove Saddam, "justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD".

And they conveniently leave out the key word 'but'.