The Downing Street Memo Reconsidered - (Yahoo)

[annabanana]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050611/cm_thenation/33324/nc:742

David Corn

snip

".....the true impact of the DSM--which Chavez and Graham danced around--is that it shows that Bush was not being straight with the American public. At that point in time--the summer of 2002- Bush and his advisers were claiming that Bush had not yet decided to go to war, that he saw it as a last option, that he would try other alternatives--even diplomacy!--first. The obvious goal was to persuade the public that he was a reasonable fellow who would not rush to such a momentous decision. Yet the DSM, as many readers of this blog already know, discloses that C came back from Washington with quite a different impression:

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 NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

(a "most viewed"?....not yet)

[Starfury]

1. Try this link....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/thenation/20050611/cm_thenation/33324_1

[Kindigger]

2. He was on the McLaughlin Group yesterday

I don't believe they discussed the DSM. If they did, I missed it at the very beginning....would have liked to hear it... Blankley, Buchanan, and especially Eleanor.

Anyone know?