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Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo
NewsMax.Com ^
| 6/2/2005
| With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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."
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To: Txsleuth
No, I missed that hearing. If it replays this weekend I'll try and catch it.
To: Jet Jaguar
242
posted on
06/10/2005 7:57:34 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
To: Darksheare; Jet Jaguar; AlanDownunder
Maybe if you're from down under your thinking stands logic on its head.
Or maybe he's from down under france.
243
posted on
06/10/2005 8:11:36 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(This is the strangest Life I've ever known.)
To: AlanDownunder
listen stooopid... it was fixed as in
BOUND around the policy!!!
244
posted on
06/10/2005 8:28:22 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Jet Jaguar
ROFL!
If that doesn't get it done, nothing will!
245
posted on
06/10/2005 8:32:55 AM PDT
by
tiamat
("I live in my own little world. But it's okay. They know me here.")
To: Darksheare
I think this guy needs a dandelion. He's not worth an official shrubbery.
246
posted on
06/10/2005 8:35:32 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: AlanDownunder; Darksheare; meowmeow; Constitution Day; 4mycountry; Poohbah; Grampa Dave; ...
247
posted on
06/10/2005 8:45:48 AM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
To: shibumi; Jet Jaguar; AlanDownunder
That is a possibility.
The Libs from 'down under' think that criminals will obey weapon bans and have disarmed the populace.
248
posted on
06/10/2005 9:06:14 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
To: SandyInSeattle
249
posted on
06/10/2005 9:06:39 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
To: Darksheare
Ah! I shall search for one.
250
posted on
06/10/2005 9:07:36 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: AlanDownunder
From us to you, bugaboo!
251
posted on
06/10/2005 9:09:28 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: SandyInSeattle
252
posted on
06/10/2005 9:44:07 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
To: Jet Jaguar
Wow!!! what a menacing looking piece of machinery!!!
253
posted on
06/10/2005 11:42:32 AM PDT
by
trussell
(Prayers for the children!)
To: Jet Jaguar
That is one nice skill saw.
254
posted on
06/10/2005 12:57:37 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Caution. Contents under pressure.)
To: kromike
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry... For some reason, I always chuckle a little when I hear those words...especially at the very beginning of an article.
255
posted on
06/10/2005 1:00:29 PM PDT
by
Recovering Hermit
(Void where prohibited...but only if there is absolutely no toilet.)
To: AlanDownunder; Darksheare
I looooove the clever screenname!
AlanDownUndER
Why, Alan, you are clever! Clever clever clever little you!
256
posted on
06/10/2005 1:42:30 PM PDT
by
grellis
(Klezmer! Klezmer! Klezmer!)
To: kromike
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said,
So Mr. sKerry, put up or shut up! If you are going to make an a$$ out of yourself I would just as soon you get it over with.
First of all this memo is all hearsay. In other words, it is from a third party, with no direct knowledge of the conversation.The last I heard hearsay is inadmissible, or doesn't that make a difference to you DemoncRat slimes?
Second of all, if my president was NOT discussing this with our allies, I would wonder if he were not incompetent!
So, by all means, run your mouth and dig a deeper hole for you and your constituents to climb out of before the 2006 elections. Nothing could make me any happier than to see you idiots nail the lid on the coffin of the DumbocRat party.
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posted on
06/10/2005 2:17:33 PM PDT
by
Allosaurs_r_us
(for a fee........I'm happy to be........Your BACKDOOR MAN!....Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!)
To: Darksheare
Here's some more of what you might call
troll. It follows on from this
troll.
We can disagree about the need - as opposed to the desirability - to liberate Iraq from Saddam but there's no denying that the US administration lied in 2002 about it being a "last resort" or that it was an illegal occupation.
To: AlanDownunder
No, I'm pretty sure that you are a troll.
Thank the mods that they left you in place to play with.
259
posted on
06/13/2005 5:19:50 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
To: AlanDownunder
260
posted on
06/13/2005 5:25:11 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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