Kerry To Raise Downing Street Memo
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Via LightUptheDarkness.org comes this:
(New Bedford Standard-Times) Sen. Kerry puzzled over the apparent lack of interest by Americans in the Iraq war and the near silence in the U.S. mass media about the so-called Downing Street Memo.
That leaked secret document, the minutes of a 2002 cabinet meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says bluntly that Mr. Bush had decided to attack Iraq long before going to Congress with the matter, and that "intelligence was being fixed around the policy."
It caused an uproar in Great Britain and badly hurt Mr. Blair in national elections but went almost unnoticed in the United States.
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," he said of the memo, which has not been disputed by either the British or American governments. "I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home. And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."
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Kerry & Downing St Memo
Oh god, at last. Things are coming together.
I still don't understand why
I still don't understand why Kerry (and others) gave this criminal administration the power to go to war, he had to know back then that intelligence was being manipulated.
I believe that the biggest
I believe that the biggest influence was that the nation was still reeling from the after effects of 9/11. The BA asked Congress for the permission to use force, "if necessary" knowing full well that people were still vulnerable.
Rove and the neocons are very astute when it comes to playing on public emotions.
If you remember, the Senate
If you remember, the Senate membership was only allowed to view the intel in a special room and were not allowed to take notes, pictures or any other recording device. Why do you think that was?
The BA knew the intelligence was cooked and might eventually be found out later. Any record of the viewing could be used as evidence later. If Kerry knew that the information was shaky, he would not have voted to authorize. This should have been his point during the campaign from day one, and IMHO was the reason he lost (disregarding voting fraud here in Dumbfuckistan Ohio).
Sci Fi points to answer
I am going to use my once a day allowance of Sci Fi references here.
In Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, the character Hari Sheldon was a historian that developed a mathematic formula for predicting the actions of large populations, based on various stimuli. While his theory cannot predict the actions of individuals (Kerry), large populations can be controled through fear. Seems that Rove has discovered the formula.
Saving the world from stupidity
One Republican at a time
Since November, 2004
If I remember correctly, it
If I remember correctly, it was also posed in that trilogy, that general populations oppose war only after simple domestic products become scarce. Sad commentary.
I’m also a little scared Vince because I think some of those books guide my thinking on how to deal with the electorate. Yikes.
Kerry to raise Downing St. Memo
It's about time. I don't think the ranking democrats have been very active, or affective, in refuting this republican spin machine. Lets get going!!!
Kerry is fighting for us.
Ever since the election was stolen by GW/Rove and Diebold, Kerry has not retreated in the backwoods. Instead, he told us " I've got your back".
He has been fighting for just causes and all Americans. Kerry is putting into action his promise to us. Now it's our turn to support Kerry and tell him," we have your back".
Karin
YD Blues, I honestly don't know.
And that is what concerns me.
When? Call John Kerry
Despite Kerry's comments, he did not bring up the Downing Street Memo in Washington on Monday. What is going on here? I took liberal talk show host Thom Hartmann's advice and called Senator Kerry's office to encourage him. (Thom is streamable on the web and often gives the toll free Congressional switchboard number which can be used to call Kerry and others, very memorable: 877-SOB-USOB -- yes, those are the Letter O's.)
Peace,
Kate Anne
Katys right
Where was Kerry today?? We were depending on him Not to desert the Sinkinng DEmocratic People of America. FIGHT AGAINST THE NAZIS EVEN IF ITS UR LAST BREATH.!! iT MIGHT BE MINE
What About Kerry
I was going to ask what had become of John Kerry...
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The Washington Post
The Downing Street Memo Story Won't Die
By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
"I think it's a . . . profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," Sen. John Kerry told a Massachusetts audience last week. "And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."
Kerry promised to raise the issue when he returned to Washington this week. [referring to the week of June 6th]
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Pretty much everyone knows about the above Kerry statement, though many have conflated his remarks with those of Ralph Nader and his call for impeachment. Still I'd not heard that he had actually followed through...
Common knowledge. In the House of Represtatives, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) is the apparent front man for the issue of the Downing Street Memo, and has been leading the action in the House of Representatives, holding a hearing on the issue as well as forwarding a letter from himself and 88 of his colleagues to George Bush.
The Gap in my knowledge. Meanwhile apparently, in the Senate and with somewhat less coverage aside from or since the brief comments from Senator John Kerry promising to raise the issue in the Senate. I had wondered what had become of this, but upon researching the question I see that he has indeed taken action, in the form of circulating a letter on the Downing Street Memo amongst his fellow senators. It apparently calls for the President to answer the questions raised by the DSM. Anyway, apparently the latest information can be found on the downingstreetmemo.com website--seems a most likely place for it. They ask everyone to actively support the Kerry letter by contacting and encouraging your senators, both Republican and Democrat, to support it.
DowningStreetMemo.com
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