http://rawstory.com/CAs liberal Democrat calls for special prosecutor on Iraq, Democrats duck
John Byrne
Published: February 8, 2006
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the feisty septuagenarian congressman who serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee will issue yet another missive to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales later this week calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal misconduct with regard to the Bush Administration's march to war in Iraq.
Just three other Democrats have signed Conyers’ letter: Reps. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Susan Davis (D-CA).
Conyers' move comes on the heels of yet another British memorandum showing that President Bush had conspired with Prime Minister Tony Blair to set a fixed date for war before even bringing Iraq to the United Nations. The memo also asserts that Bush had proposed a plan to paint a U.S. spyplane with UN markings and use it to attempt to lure Saddam Hussein into war.
What's striking isn't that Conyers is calling on Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. He's done it before, and he'd likely do it again. But his decision to take public action to seek a Justice Department investigation of pre-war policy and manipulation of the press has met resounding silence among his Democratic Party.
While a handful of House members sign on to Conyers' proposals each time, the leading voices in the party are dark when it comes to formal legal action on Iraq. In other words, Democrats are quick to criticize the Administration, but are loath to make legal attempts to bring them to account. Democratic senators have called for a special prosecutor to investigate both the fallen conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance program. But they have yet to seek a criminal inquiry into how the United States got into a war that has cost taxpayers $300 billion dollars and is burning the nation's reserves at the rate of $100,000 a minute.
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February 07, 2006
Still Waiting....
Yesterday, the hound-dogs of the White House press corps asked not one question regarding the Mother of All Downing Street memos during the White House daily press briefing. It certainly is unlikely that Scott McClellan would open up and tell all if a journo politely requested that he do so. Nevertheless, there is a credible report that Bush in January 2003 talked to Blair about orchestrating an event to provoke Saddam Hussein so Bush could justify a war. That ought to merit at least one bothersome query.
Background found on England's Channel 4 website:
http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/whitehouse... White House Meeting Memo
The White House memo
Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war.
Memo extracts
Taken from the White House Meeting Memo, 31 January
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