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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Thanks - funny because I've found this before just typing "+Iraq+2002" but "HJR 114" not much. I guess my brain power was extremely low yesterday.
I believe Sandy Burglar was in the private sector when he did his thing. Rules and regulations mean nothing to these people..
* Just when I think those idiots can't get any dumber, they totally redeem themselves.
What fourth grader doesn't understand that "fixed" doesn't mean "faked?"
fixed (fkst) adj.
1. Firmly in position; stationary.
2. Determined; established; set: at a fixed time; a fixed price.
3. Not subject to change or variation; constant: pensioners on a fixed income.
4. Chemistry
a. Not readily evaporating; nonvolatile.
b. Being in a stable, combined form: fixed nitrogen.
5. a. Firmly, often dogmatically held: fixed beliefs.
b. Persistently occurring in the mind; obsessive: a fixed, delusive notion.
6. Supplied, especially with funds or needs. Often used in combination: a well-fixed bachelor.
7. Illegally prearranged as to outcome: a fixed election.
Leave it to the idiots to seize on the most extreme, and last, among all options.
Kerry has not kept silent, but he did lose the election by only 35 (vice 34) electoral votes.
JF'nK is a lying traitor ~ Bump!
Will he be presenting his records along with that.
I heard about this today on Fox & Friends.The 9/11 "Commission" couldn't come up with anything they could use to help the Dims put John Kerry in the White House, so now they're going to try the next best thing - try to help the Dims impeach George Bush.
I have yet to see an original; I saw the Times UK document...looks like Rather had his hands on it...seriously. Why would Kerry (who was on the intelligence committee and numerous times claimed he saw the intelligence and agreed we should get Saddam. We do know he had WMD...we always did. Someone link the original please...I just saw page one (supposedly), of the minutes and the rest (different versions in every column I saw), no originals. There are no direct quotes either.
They should present him with a request for his resignation for activities during the Vietnam Conflict and a dishonorable discharge yet somehow getting into the senate without a hearing (required). By the way, the pardon didn't apply to him. Also, I lot of his military records documents have been LOST on the site John Kerry.com.
Coincidence?
Take a number on that one.
Where did he get the memo? Dan Rather or the hologram of Vince Foster? The dems are tyring to pull another Watergate move, just look at the timing of this crap. Electing the POS shrillary is the a good way to start the next civil war in America. Evita will rule with an iron lesbian fist. All us Patriots, best be ready to defend ourselves from the legions of shrillary. NSNR
Hillary is the Annointed One. It's her time to be President, the MSM knows it, fanatical feminists know it, Leftists whose FBI files she still has know it. They'll promote her candidacy 24/7, and woe betide anyone else who holds his/her hand up and says, Hey, what about me? Kerry thinks his wife's bottomless purse will beat Hillary, but TerAYsa was sick of campaigning by last November -- she even dropped 'Kerry' from her last name and said she'd be just 'Heinz'. I think she's rethought that, but he'll have to talk her around somehow.
It's interesting to speculate that there might exist a sane, sensible democrat, but Zell Miller retired. Who else do they have? Hillary will play the center for all she's worth, winking at her supporters. She's taken speech lessons and is probably orchestrating Howard Dean's departure from his present position. Oh, to be a fly on the wall.
I agree with you about the authenticity of this memo being in question.
I think there is something else afoot here and someone stepped right into it.
You're right. The question of illegal immigration will be huge in '06 and '08. By '06, the new mayor of LA will have had plenty of time to outrage Americans everywhere, so Mexico taking precedence over our laws and sovereignty will not go unnoticed. Hillary will spend countless hours massaging Hispanic voters. She'll take polls, have focus groups discussing it ad nauseum -- whatever it takes. She'll talk out of both sides of her mouth, and the MSM will give her a pass.
The British definition of the word "fixed" means to verify as accurate.
They don't roll 'em any dumber than jFk.
There are only 99 legal US Senators,
and one illegal one, Hanoi Kerry
Don't be like the Silent Majority in the 60's and 70's
Demand Kerry be ousted from the US Senate!
There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate
He is there illegally!
WAKEUP AMERICA!
For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
did in the past read on and learn the truth.
Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen
Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html
And the FBI has proof of his treason.
Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files
May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.
(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
may be tried at any time without limitation.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#*%20843.%20ART.%2043.%20STATUTE%20OF%20LIMITATIONS
"Hillary is the Annointed One. It's her time to be President, the MSM knows it, fanatical feminists know it, Leftists whose FBI files she still has know it. They'll promote her candidacy 24/7, and woe betide anyone else who holds his/her hand up and says, Hey, what about me? Kerry thinks his wife's bottomless purse will beat Hillary, but TerAYsa was sick of campaigning by last November -- she even dropped 'Kerry' from her last name and said she'd be just 'Heinz'. I think she's rethought that, but he'll have to talk her around somehow. "
Don't be a CINO (Conservative in Name Only)
Don't listen to CINO's in politics,
the Main Stream CINO media,
and even here on Free Republic.
Remember all who told you not to worry about klintoon, hitlery and reno
after the 2000 election?
Remember all who said Ashcroft would prosecute them.
Remember Chinagate, Pardongate, Waco, Vince Foster, the Jewish town in NY etc., etc., etc. ?
Well reno ran against Jeb Bush and hitlery wants to beat Hanoi Kerry in 08
Are YOU willing to listen to the CINO's again?
BTTT!
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