Posted on 06/02/2005 9:37:29 PM PDT by kromike
Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.
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"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," the top Democrat added. The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.
Citing the Downing Street Memo, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe.
"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists," wrote Nader with co-author Kevin Zeese. "A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step."
The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.
Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:
"It's amazing to me," the top Democrat said, "the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."
From the Congressional Record of November 9, 1997;
WE MUST BE FIRM WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN
http://frwebgate4.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=7777778848+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
"Lord knows he deserves it."
Indeed, he deserves it. But I think that should be the job of our next presidential candidate.
What on earth is wrong with Lurch? Does he think this nonsense will put him in the white house?!........Message to Lurch and all the DU dummies. If you impeach Bush then Cheney will be your president. And I know how much you guys love Cheney. So knock yourselves out!
And .. the people on the internet who are talking about it are MoveOn .. and if that's sKerry's base - HE'S IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
When the document was published, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair denied that anything in the memo demonstrated misconduct and said that it added little to what was already known about how British policy on Iraq developed.
He has to prove that despite the fact the whole world knew Saddam had the WMD, that somehow Bush knew different and lied while sending our military in harms way.
Good luck on that bit of garbage.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
BTTT!!!!!!!
"NO, we have found anything yet but we're going to just keep digging..........."
Just stand back and wait for the walls to fall in.....
Wanna bet the Dems decide on MOnday to filabuster Bolton AND the judicial nominations because Bush won't respond to this letter?
Is the actual text of the memo posted anywheres?
New DNC math:
Impeachment + conviction = President Cheney + VP Rice
VP Rice + 2008 = President Rice
Hillary = 0
Obiviously with deep throat exposing himself, the liberals are having Nixon & watergate flashbacks. President Bush isn't Richard Nixon. Kerry is delusional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo#UK_Prime_Minister_Tony_Blair
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
I haven't seen an "actual" memo yet though.
I did find this new http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html site which is really cool though
"Everything on the Internet is false, except what we tell you." - Hillary
My first thought when I hear someone say that most of the stuff on the Internet is fake is "yeah, if you're completely stupid, and have no reserves of logic or knowledge to draw upon to screen the info on the Net...".
Someone also needs to tell Kerry that he's in the Senate and impeachment proceedings begin in the House. What a loser.
Thanks,as always, and yes..that last site is very kewl..
Check out the trend graph part.
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