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John Kerry Reportedly To Present "Downing Street Memo" To Congress (New Info)
All Headline News ^ | 06-05-2005 | Douglas Maher

Posted on 06/05/2005 10:27:40 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

John Kerry Reportedly To Present "Downing Street Memo" To Congress

June 5, 2005 7:36 a.m. EST

Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Washington,D.C. (AHN)- After remaining almost silent since losing the 2004 election by thirty four electoral votes, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is reportedly planning to to present Congress with The Downing Street Memo, reported last month by the London Times.

The memo purports to include minutes from a July 2002 meeting with Tony Blair, in which Blair allegedly said that President Bush's administration "fixed" intelligence on Iraq in order to justify the Iraqi war.

The Downing Street Memo is a leaked Top Secret document that details the minutes of a 2002 meeting between top-level British and American government officials.

The memo states that George Bush "was determined" to attack Iraq long before going to Congress with the matter, and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Rumblings across Washington and the Internet claim this is a step from Democrats towards impeachment of President Bush.

Fellow Democrat Rep. John Conyers of Michigan has issued a statement on the U.S. House of Representatives stating that he is seeking information regarding the meeting minutes.

"I am seeking information regarding the charges made in the so-called “Downing Street Minutes” that there was a secret agreement between the U.S. and the U..K to invade Iraq by the summer of 2002, well before the president sought congressional authority." Conyers said.

"Please provide us with any information or leads you might have regarding such a secret pre-war deal, or other efforts to manipulate intelligence or provoke a response to justify war. We will treat any information provided on this site as confidential. Thank you for your assistance in this important matter."

However, All Headline News has re-discovered that a bill signed by then President Clinton named "The Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998" gave President Bush all of the legal recourse necessary for the war.

Stating directly from the bill: "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. "

The H.R. 4655 law was signed into effect October 31,1998.

Republicans plan to issue a response to Senator Kerry by using his own words against him, a tactic used in the 2004 Election. Where Sen. Kerry was quoted as saying the war was justified and Saddam Hussein needed to be removed.

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To: My Favorite Headache
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-01-poland-iraq-sarin_x.htm

While the article above doesn't indicate stockpiles, I don't remember the President giving Saddam the option of a quantitative amount.
141 posted on 06/05/2005 5:30:36 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Kennedy, Schumer, etc, etc.... are sure beginning to behave in a very anti-American manner....
Behaving very much like enemies of the Constitution and Republic.....

For all you current and former Military ---- this is a reminder of the oath we all took.
To my knowledge, none of us have been excused or released from that oath..
It appears the writers of that oath we all took, knew what they were talking about....as today is it clear we have enemies of the Republic "serving" in the U.S. House and Senate...

"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Remember?

Semper Fi
142 posted on 06/05/2005 5:32:58 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I hope so, but the fact is, with the sellout seven, one wonders if this is true...but any republicans who even think of voting for this should be run out on a rail!


143 posted on 06/05/2005 5:35:35 PM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

to quote today's NY Times...."propaganda gift to America's enemies," though they were not referring to Kerry or to themselves.


144 posted on 06/05/2005 5:37:03 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Highest Authority

"This is the desperation of a dying political party!"

The whitened turd rears its head off the ashened dung heap in one last gasp right before the lawn mower of "public-opinion-who-cares" vaporizes its existence.

Back to the yacht, boy.


145 posted on 06/05/2005 5:39:05 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: river rat

Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Kennedy, Schumer, etc, etc.... are sure beginning to behave in a very anti-American manner....
Behaving very much like enemies of the Constitution and Republic.....


Beginning to behave Un-American?
Seems to me these Socialist A-holes have done this continually for as long as they've been in politics(probably longer).


146 posted on 06/05/2005 5:41:53 PM PDT by conshack ((Illegal immigration is the #1 threat to Homeland Security))
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To: My Favorite Headache
After remaining almost silent since losing the 2004 election

Say what? After the election, Kerry hit the speech circuit griping that OIF is a grave mistake, he said that the elections in Iraq was just a bunch of hype, and that there is no way to win against the "insurgency" in Iraq. "Almost silent" my cracked backside.

147 posted on 06/05/2005 6:02:45 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: conshack

True ---- but I get the sense they've crossed the line recently..

The "line" that defines "irresponsibly dangerous".

Some folks will believe they crossed that line, long ago...
My line is a little farther out -- but once crossed, the die is thrown..

Semper Fi


148 posted on 06/05/2005 6:11:18 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Darkwolf377

You could take all of the "substance" from Edwards and Bayh and put it in a cup and have room left over....

What, if anything, have these two ever accomplished? Was Bayh a Governor?

Someone else mentioned Hillbilly needing Rep. Ford to get out of her way....don't know where that came from--Ford has a whole corrupt family to take care of.


149 posted on 06/05/2005 6:12:44 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: gopwinsin04
Looks like the Kerry campaign really never finished flushed...
150 posted on 06/05/2005 6:34:46 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: My Favorite Headache

"George Bush "was determined" to attack Iraq long before going to Congress with the matter, and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."


If this is so, it is fortunate that Saddam and the Ba'athist regime in Iraq were co-conspirators from at least the time of this July 2002 meetig, yes?

Kerry won't get a purple heart for this one, only a tube of Prep H, LOL


151 posted on 06/05/2005 6:36:07 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Humidston
"Allow the RAT party/far left to develop hysterical theories until the entire country is laughing at them. ENTER, STAGE LEFT: Hitlary Clintoon, queen on a broom, to "save" the RAT party from their insanity so that she can steer them to the so-called Middle."

That particular version only works in the Dum primaries. Bubba needed a Perot in both general elections -- no viable 3rd-party candidate for Hillary to triangulate off of in '08.

152 posted on 06/05/2005 6:39:19 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: Political Junkie Too

"...a flanking maneuver over judges...."

You may well be right....on its face, this is at best redundant, and could only cause some grumbling and endless controversy/whining on its own legs.....but as an extraneous factor in the coming appointments, well...sorta like Clarences pubic hair, yes?


153 posted on 06/05/2005 6:46:30 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: My Favorite Headache
Kerry should have an easier time with his phony memo than Dan Rather did.

We had proportional type and superscripts in 2002.
154 posted on 06/05/2005 6:49:27 PM PDT by Ender Wiggin
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To: river rat

True ---- but I get the sense they've crossed the line recently..

The "line" that defines "irresponsibly dangerous".

Some folks will believe they crossed that line, long ago...
My line is a little farther out -- but once crossed, the die is thrown..

Semper Fi


You must be a real patient Semper Fi guy. JF'n unmistakenly crossed that line about 34 years ago. The others have done it continuosly for years.


155 posted on 06/05/2005 6:52:52 PM PDT by conshack ((Illegal immigration is the #1 threat to Homeland Security))
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To: My Favorite Headache
The Clinton info in this article is a sign that even the MSM media knows this dog will not hunt.

But it might lift it's leg and pee...all over somebody. And that's what the MSM wants....

156 posted on 06/05/2005 6:52:54 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Hillary Clinton is about as welcome as an egg-sucking dog...in my neck of the woods.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
I don't know...

To me, the fight over Clarence Thomas was less about President George H. W. Bush and more about whether Thomas was the "right" judge to take over the "Black" seat on the court after Thurgood Marshall left. This fight is not over the judges per se, but about President George W. Bush and his power to appoint judges.

-PJ

157 posted on 06/05/2005 6:56:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Kerry said it:
which is attempting to develop nuclear and biological weapons,

Right on the Senate Floor!!!

And you can bet that had W not done anything, and had we been attacked by Iraq, Flurch Munster would have gone right back to his statement on the Senate floor that was referenced upthread.

Just damn...

158 posted on 06/05/2005 7:17:44 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("So...according to the UN, weapons that never existed are missing...again!" -Rush Limbaugh)
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To: OXENinFLA

just BUMP


159 posted on 06/05/2005 7:24:38 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("So...according to the UN, weapons that never existed are missing...again!" -Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Txsleuth

Bayh was the Governor of Indiana 1989-1997. But he was not a good one!


160 posted on 06/05/2005 7:29:11 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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