Downing St. Memo : Part #2 ???

[dbeach]

Sorry if this was posted..


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/150605chroniclecovers.htm

Is it a second Downing Street Memo -- or something even more damning for both the Bush administration and the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair?

On May 1, Britain's Sunday Times broke the story of the now-infamous Downing Street Memo; that document, the minutes of a meeting of Blair's top advisers, showed that the prime minister had known, some eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, that a war not authorized by the United Nations would be illegal for British troops to take part in. Now The Times has scooped its rivals again with the news -- and the text of -- a leaked, extremely secret British Cabinet Office briefing paper dated July 23, 2002. Prepared for Blair and his closest advisers, this newly discovered document clearly states that "since regime change was illegal, it was 'necessary to create the conditions' which would make it legal."

Of Bush and Blair's rush to war, Margolis writes, "And so it went. Lie after lie. Scare upon scare. Fakery after fakery, trumpeted by the tame media that came to resemble the lickspittle press of the old Soviet Union. Ironically, in the end, horrid Saddam Hussein turned out to be telling the truth all along , while Bush and Blair were not."
Margolis offers a conclusion that, so far, no major news sources in the United States has dared utter. The Downing Street Memo, he notes, "would have forced any of Europe's democratic governments to resign in disgrace. But not Bush and Blair. Far from it." He also chastises American news corporations for failing -- or refusing -- to investigate what appeared to news watchers in other countries to be a vitally important story linked to the war."

[napi21]

1. I heard there are 7 more documents!

I heard it on CNN last night I think. I'll see what I can find.

[dbeach]

3. the controllers

evil is sometimes eclipsed by their arrogance

the chimp NAZI salute!


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/150605bus...

[napi21]

2. Check the attached link. It's got links to 7 more documents.

http://www.democrats.com/node/4989

It's also supposed to be on RawStory.

[dbeach]

4. good score!!

got any more??

'as long as I am dictator"

[napi21]

5. Did you see there were 8 separate links there?

Each one is a different memo.

[dbeach]

6. wow

goin fast here''listening to anti-govt interview and reading stories..
will read up soonest

[DURHAM D]

7. The minutes I want to see would be from the meeting(s)

where they discussed Saddam's frantic efforts to stop the impending war by giving the U.S. and U.K. anything and everything they wanted, i.e. access, records, more inspectors, etc.

I want to see the notes where they agreed that they had to stop talking to him because Bush wanted the back channel talks to cease before Saddam offered to step down.

[seemslikeadream]

8. Well Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC this morning said

about DSM

You would have had to be brain dead not to know what the president was up too.






:hi:

[dbeach]

9. love that quote .its a keeper!

ole andrea reporting from the pinnacles of Hades!!

[sunnystarr]

10. I thought she said one would have to be blind not to see what

Bush was up to. Her remark totally infuriated me. If that's true then why wasn't the press screaming to the people and Congress before they voted on giving him any authority??

[seemslikeadream]

11. I think I heard her say that also but she did say brain dead

cause the first thing I thought of was Terri Schiavo

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3862893