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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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!
to quote today's NY Times...."propaganda gift to America's enemies," though they were not referring to Kerry or to themselves.
"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.
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).
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.
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 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.
"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
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.
"...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?
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.
But it might lift it's leg and pee...all over somebody. And that's what the MSM wants....
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
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...
just BUMP
Bayh was the Governor of Indiana 1989-1997. But he was not a good one!
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