With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.
Posted on 06/14/2005 7:41:25 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Is it a second Downing Street Memo -- or something even more damning for both the Bush administration and the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair?
On May 1, Britain's Sunday Times broke the story of the now-infamous Downing Street Memo; that document, the minutes of a meeting of Blair's top advisers, showed that the prime minister had known, some eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, that a war not authorized by the United Nations would be illegal for British troops to take part in. Now The Times has scooped its rivals again with the news -- and the text of -- a leaked, extremely secret British Cabinet Office briefing paper dated July 23, 2002.
Prepared for Blair and his closest advisers, this newly discovered document clearly states that "since regime change was illegal, it was 'necessary to create the conditions' which would make it legal."
The Times' news story, written by defense reporter Michael Smith, about the newly discovered, secret briefing paper noted that it had confirmed that Blair "had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W. Bush three months earlier." In his news article, Smith explained that fabricating conditions for going to war "was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal U.S. action."
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I don't think we Republicans should ignore this blatent attempt by the media and the Leftists to bring down Bush. We need to fight this!
Hasn't regime change been the policy of the United States since 1998?
Do these morans take us for morons?
What is the "United Nations"?
Like this makes a lick of sense, given that Blair and Clinton bombed Kosovo and Serbia without UN approval.
Wasn't "regime change" the official policy of the United States ever since 1994 or around there?
LET'S SEE THE ACTUAL DOCS.
This propaganda has already been discredited, even before it started. The British legal adviser said that although a UN resolution gave some legal justification, it was several years old, which put it into question. So they went back to the UN and got a new resolution.
The administration won't get bogged down in arguing over this, so it's up to the internet to straighten it out.
Only with the DU and kindred spirits.
Now there's another Downing Street Memo?
This attempt to bring down Bush and Blair has reached the point of parody. It looks contrived, and, frankly, nobody cares about it anymore.
The White House should say nothing more about any of this.
I don't care to be "authorized" by anyone the American electorate didn't "authorize"!
Microsoft Word with British English default grammar being queued up as we speak...
The doc was released and discussed yesterday or the day before on one of the blogs. There's a thread here somewhere. The actual text of the memo completely discredits this leftist propaganda.
I don't get it. What's the news in this supposed to be? Now they are gonna get in trouble for making sure it was legal??
Go to RAW STORY for the documents. This is what the MSM is picking up.
If you ignore them long enough, they go away.
I just did an FR search on "Downing Street memo." There's not one but several recent articles discrediting this story posted here over the past couple of days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=Downing%20Street%20Memo
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