Forged Iraq "Memo to Blair" exposed - AGAIN!

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[smag999]

About every 20 minutes somebody at DU posts the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau report that says Bush/Blair prepped for a 2003 war with Iraq. The Washington Bureau report was based on a memo that has now been debunked as a FRAUD.

Will Wolcotte and Strobel, the two guys that continually print misinformation at this Washington Bureau of Knight Ridder, be punished? I doubt it. They never are.

[TheForceOfOne]

The MSM is the center for misinformation.

[Pikamax]

you have a link to the Knight ridder article?

[massgopguy]

It was a joy reading them meltdown over this at DU. The fools.

[smag999]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11574296.htm

Here is the link to the Knight Ridder "story".

[Paradox]

You got a link to that thread?

[smag999]

Just talked to that idiot Congressman Conyer's office. He is wasting our legislatures time demanding hearings on the Washington Bureau report that is based on a FORGERY!

Unbelievable. His aide sounded stunned when I read him the AFP report and wanted me to talk to the "judiciary" people in Conyers office. I told him no, I prefer to see Conyers continue make a big fool of himself

[popdonnelly]

This is the way a lie becomes fact.

[Phantom Lord]

It was a joy reading them meltdown over this at DU. The fools

Linky please.

[Jackson57]

It's always funny to see them flip back and forth when their "proof!!" and "undeniable evidence" ends up being forged and/or faulty. It's either "a MSM/BFEE cover-up" or "the Repugs did it to make us look bad ... ". Time after time, they get fooled by forged documents and, yet, still don't get how stupid they are.

[oolatec]

Where has this memo been debunked? Anyone?

[CyberAnt]

"The Washington Bureau report was based on a memo that has now been debunked as a FRAUD"


Has anybody informed the 88 House members who have signed that letter to the President ..?? Because .. NOW .. THEY LOOK LIKE TOTAL FOOLS - which they are.

[Chi-townChief]

I can't find the DU meltdown - has it been pulled?

[CandiM]

Oh, there are about 75 threads on the GD board--They're obsessing over this and how it's going to be "the thing that finally brings the * administration down".......just like the obsessed over the Gannon story was going to be THE thing.......and before that, how they were so sure that the Valerie Plame business was going to be THE thing.......and before that.......and before that.......and before that.......--

To tell the truth, I rather enjoy watching them flit from one "This is HUGE" story (or, when they're really excited, it comes out "This is HUGH".......I've always wanted to meet Hugh.......) that's going to "blow this administration WIDE OPEN" to the next, frantically beseeching their numbers to "DU" one meaningless online poll after another, constantly calling their senators and congresspersons to heckle them about the crisis du jour and writing endless letters to the editor of the Podunk Times--Small wonder the Democrats never get anything of any import done!--C

[GeorgiaMike]

Where are the articles refuting this charge against Blair and Bush?

[withteeth]

Here you go. (Poster has it at the top.)

[withteeth]

Thanks for posting this. At our local lefty message board, they were peddeling this just yesterday. Not anymore.

[bernie_g]

I'm struggling to understand which memo is forged. There was more than one 'leaked' memo in the election run-up. One was the original text of Goldsmith's advice to Blair, quibbling about the legality of the war. That was leaked and then officially released by Downing Street and hence presumably isn't fake. The other was a briefing from (purportedly) some Downing St official about Blair's meeting with Mr Bush and the war planning. At the time the second one came out, one of Blair's officals made a 'so what?' statement that didn't appear to dispute its authenticity, but only its relevance to anything important.

I believe the latter is the one that has your Democrats all stirred up, but the rebuttal article mentions something signed by Goldsmith rather than one of Blair's political advisers as in the other memo. Which sounds like a fake Goldsmith memo as opposed to the real Goldsmith memo or the briefing about planning on Iraq. It's all rather confusing.

[withteeth]

thanks, bernie_g. No legs for either story, apparently. (shrug)