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  • The Impeachability of the Bush Administration
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Introduction First off, I’d like to start by saying that this isn’t about impeaching Bush. The subject is clearly about the Impeachment of the Administration. The entire administration, even those who we may find more politically palatable than the rest, need to go given the recent findings in the numerous leaked minutes, reports and internal secret communications of the British government.
    Secondly, it is obvious, someone high up in the British government has the moral fortitude, bravery (…)

  • MILITARY FAMILIES CHARGE BLAIR WITH WAR CRIMES - WILL TAKE CASE TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It has been widely reported that release of war documents from Downing Street finished Tony Blair in the last election. While that is true enough, the tide turned in the May 5th election when 10 bereaved families of British soldiers killed in Iraq confronted Tony Blair face to face, charging him with war crimes. .
    All the documentary evidence of Bush/Blair war crimes is now laid out for judicial review before the International Criminal, and, thanks to the BBC and the Sunday Times, for the (…)

  • The leak that changed minds on the Iraq war
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Six weeks ago The Sunday Times published the leaked minutes of a July 2002 Downing Street meeting in which Tony Blair committed Britain to war in Iraq months before parliament was consulted.
    They detailed a secret pledge to President George W Bush to help oust Saddam, showed that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, had warned such action could be illegal and that Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, had thought the case for war was “thin”.
    By any standards these were fascinating (…)

  • Washington Post covers The Memo on Front Page
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan
    By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 12, 2005; Page A01
    A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country.
    The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing (…)

  • Bush and ’The Memo’
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editorial
    PRESIDENT BUSH apparently thinks he can dismiss the damning "Downing Street memo" with a few glib words.
    If he is right, it is a sad commentary on the state of American democracy and values.
    The memo, recounting the details of a July 23, 2002, meeting at British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official residence on 10 Downing St., strongly suggested that the message had been sent across the Atlantic that the Bush White House had made the decision to wage war on Iraq. The minutes (…)

  • In shying away from 2002 Downing Street Memo, a timid press shirks its duty
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The coverage, or lack of coverage, of a story regarding notes from a meeting of British intelligence officials dubbed the "Downing Street Memo’’ is quite a mystery.
    If fact, coverage has been curiously meager, although the contents of the memo were reported in early May by the Sunday Times of London. The intervening weeks have seen the American media focus on runaway brides (Jennifer Wilbanks), runaway mouths (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) and a runaway Congress (…)

  • Downing Street minutes that lasted for months
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is not that often, we have to admit, that an item posted one night on Times Online is still getting hundreds of thousands of hits six weeks later, especially when what bloggers like to call ’the mainstream media’ have largely ignored its existence.
    NI_MPU(’middle’);But that is what happened to the now infamous secret Downing Street memo, posted on the site on May 1 alongside a story by Michael Smith of The Sunday Times. And if the document has taken on a life of its own it is largely (…)

  • LEAKS-BRIEF.ZIP - GRAB IT QUICK!
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    These documents shed light on how "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
    ZIP file of 6 leaked documents from Downing Street. Copy and save to your hard drive.
    http://tinyurl.com/dyqfd

  • Bush and Blair Lie to the World again - Enough is Enough
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday, George Bush and Tony Blair LIED before the world again..Harry Truman once said of Richard Nixon, "He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides", but if ever a description was to be applied to Bush and Blair, this would be it.
    How long is this going to go on? How long are these two war criminals going to be allowed to LIE repeatedly to the world before anything is (…)

  • John Conyers And Deep Throat
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Conyers And Deep Throat Margaret Kimberley June 09, 2005 Deep Throat was the anonymous source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break the Watergate story. For the past 30 years the identity and in some cases the very existence of Deep Throat has been called into question until Mark Felt recently revealed himself to be the mystery man.
    There have been many opportunities for eager reporters to bring down the current White House occupant, but no one (…)