Posted on 06/04/2005 9:55:19 AM PDT by Fruit of the Spirit
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.
"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."
To be fair, it's about 6 to one and a half dosen to the other: the RINOS desperately in need of face time are clamoring to got on TV so they can give their spiels, while the media is filling in the blanks with well...the same type of hype that has always worked with professional sports.
I don't think the Senators you are referring to are "challenging groupthink"---I just think they are joining the other side's groupthink!
You might be right, but I respect Lindsey Graham, John Warner, Trent Lott, and as unpopular as he may be in this forum, John McCain. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I can think of several reasons not to like John McCain, but his opposition to the "Nuclear Option" is not one of them. I think it is a short sighted idea, and am glad it has been averted, if only temporarily.
How very perceptive of you...especially the morph job!
:-)
I suppose you support never ending debate?
Apparently the "Search" engine wasn't working properly, because I did a search and came up empty. Sorry for your indignation.
It's frustrating at times, but what goes around comes around. I can see a day where Dems are in the majority, and the move comes back to bite us in the butt. Also, the obstruction label was/is working, Dems would have thought very hard before voting against a cloture vote.
Yep, they sink to a new low, then start digging!!
One of the most irritating arguments that the RINOs have used re: the constitutional option, is the one that involves hypothesizing that "some day we will be in the minority, and we wouldn't want them to do that to us"--
Sorry, but that is a LOSER attitude and it has no place in decision making...by using that arguement, McCain and others are "giving" help to the dems, which in turn could turn out to be self-fulfilling fears...
Can you imagine McCAin as president, not wanting to go to war with Afghanistan, because someday they might be mad at us??? sheesh
I went to the opening weekend at The Filmore East , Electric Flag was the headliner
I'm on your side but you put my name next to my adversary.
Please forgive me---I forgot to include in my post that I was equating that person with the same kind of rhetoric that MCCain is spewing!!!
Sorry---won't happen again!!! lol
Won't do any good, doesn't have any pictures...Besides, since when does a lib let the facts get in the way of a good story.....
My question is "Where is Jimmah Carter in all of this?"
He has been the GREAT UNDERMINER of Republican Presidents.
Jimmah and Kerry should be hung for treason.
On different days, of course.
I have a lot relatives. I would have to pop a lot of corn.
Your adversary? That's news to me! Thought we were having a civil discussion on American politics.
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