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."
LOL .. I'll bet Kerry and Conyers didn't realize that either
Not a chance in hell, John Kerry. You'll be laughed off the Senate floor!
2006 is going to be a great year for the GOP. Dean, Kerry, and Conyers are assuring that we will get close to the magical '60' number.
I wonder what the Dem's will do then???
How Oh How can a traitor be a US Senator with all the classified info available to you...when its been proven your nothin' but a traitor!!!!
-- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
The ENTIRE world thought Saddam had WMDs. France, Russia, Great Britan, Germany, Italy ---- even The United Nations aknowledged that Iraq had stockpiles of WMDs.
some stupid memo held in the hands of a loser has-been is just another example of a flailing failure of liberal activism.
This must be skateboarder's talk. He did leave out "totally" and "awesome" though.
The REAL big news is that Senator Gigolo P*$$ywhipped will be in Washington, PERIOD!
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
Someone's rice flack is agitating!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call SOUR GRAPES.
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"2006 is going to be a great year for the GOP. Dean, Kerry, and Conyers are assuring that we will get close to the magical '60' number.
I wonder what the Dem's will do then???"
They'll probably contemplate their losses, and then decide to move even further to the Left. Michael Moore elected new DNC chair.
Just figured it out,
Kerry is going to bring this up in the Senate and tout out some memos Bolton wrote, tie them all together then use it to stall Bolton's nomination.
"Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said..."
or more acurately
"Presidential candidate failure John Kerry said..."
I guess Kerry is finding it hard to accept being irrelevant!
"Failed presidential candidate"
Now that'll look good on his epitaph.
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