Posted on 06/08/2005 4:46:45 AM PDT by Peach
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President George W. Bush said Tuesday that there was "nothing farther from the truth" than allegations in a British government memorandum that his administration had decided to go to war in Iraq months before he took his case to the American people. The British document -- known as the Downing Street memo since its publication in a British newspaper --says the Bush administration considered an invasion of Iraq to be "inevitable" as early as July 2002 and that "the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy."
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And Kerry has said he intends to bring a petition to the Senate this week which calls for the impeachment of the president and he will use this memo to bolster his case.
I thought Conyers was going to call for an impeachment? He is collecting signatures on his website, lol. All Bush had to say was that he was continuing the United States's policy of 1998 to remove Hussein and get a democracy in there.
I hope they do bring it up on the floor of the senate. I hope Howie Deanie stays in as DNC chair. I hope Pelosi and Box-o-rocks and Kennedy *hic* all talk about all the crazy stuff they bring up on DU. And then call Bush extreme. It can only help.
Conyers has his own thing going. They are all nuts.
You know, if he actually showed up to work once in a while, he'd have remembered that only the House can impeach the President...
LOL. He's just stirring the pot and going to give some support to Conyers.
Shhh...don't ruin it with facts, lol.
As he further proves the case that he's nothing but a braying jackass gigolo....
We can only hope he does keep this going. The Dems have cornered the stupidity market, and as long as the extreme left has the influence it does with the Party, the Republicans should shine in '06.
Or studied harder in his college history and political science classes.
What's funny, they are now calling it the Downing Street minutes, as opposed to memo, so it sounds more credible. Minutes? Those aren't minutes. Those are opinions.
Umpteenth UN resolution over a decade of "last chances to comply".
I wish we could have plain talk from the politicians on this matter.
That's an excellent point.
Exactly, hearsay....third handed at that
"All Bush had to say was that he was continuing the United States's policy of 1998 to remove Hussein"
He has said it before, but the listeners all seem to be deaf.
But I have to point out that the '98 resolution said not a word about HOW to get Saddam out.
It was policy to get him out, the HOW was left wide open. A coup from within? Supporting people like the ones who gave us bad intelligence? Tougher sanctions? Another uprising by the Shia, so they could be slaughtered again? A US-led invasion?
So if Bush chose military after going to the UN and everything else had been tried, he was indeed only following the '98 Clinton/Congress policy, but this time he chose the HOW in order to get the job done.
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