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."
Sociopath
When I read the first thread the other day regarding Ralph Nader - I replied, shook my head, and let it go.
If Kerry is going to push this thing (remember, this is not about Democrats and Republicans - this is good and evil at work here, Spiritual Warfare), we are going to have to take a stand, and make things move. Emails, calls, snail-mail, whatever it takes.
We have come to far to let these "people" (I would like to say more but my Faith prohibits me)take away the best leadership we have ever had.
Eagles Up!!! Start the ball rolling FReepers!
Start contacting your Senators and Representatives TODAY....BEFORE this thing gets out of hand.
The following is a link to Tom Delay's web - he can be contacted there: http://www.majorityleader.gov/index.asp
It is a start. JK
The time is ripe for a Boston Beeber Stuning.
Kerry is about to release his 180's, and thinks this will diffuse his record.
Kerry did sign his 180. He can't remember know where he put it.
Probably gave it to George Soros for safe keeping.
Please see post #41. There are better reasons for him to be removed from the senate.
I hope so.
Just type in "downing street memo" for good stuff.
Rush talking about this link - RIGHT NOW
Rush talking about this mow....
I'll see your Vietnam tour lie and raise you a "Christmas in Cambodia"...
O'Neil, if this is true, is not even in JFK's league in telling embellishments.
Me either, and I have been to the end of the internet. :)
Hannity is on it now..
Is that possible?....LOL
Yes, he should be removed for those reasons -- but he hasn't been because people are ignorant of history. At the very least, he should be removed for not doing his job, being that his poor performance has been visible to the people of the present.
I pray that Kerry will make a fool of himself, yet again...
BUT, I would like to read the actual "memo" in question...
I can't believe that there are whole websites devoted to using it to bring down our President, but NO ONE has a transcript of the ACTUAL memo!!!
He is not a fool. He is stunningly profound. Or just stuned by his day-glo sport beeber.
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