Posted on 06/05/2005 6:34:34 AM PDT by johnny7
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.
He very well might believe that. I've been waiting for this memo to surface so it can get some sunlight. The DU is foaming at the mouth over this. I suspect is another inocuous memo that the left reads with those special glasses of their. You know the one that sees federal rights to abortion but blinds them when 900 FBI files get "lost" and found by the Clinton's.
They HAD work... judicial confirmations... Bolton's nomination... simple up-or-down votes. And, if that was too easy, they had SS Reform to tackle.
But hey... thanks to 7 spineless, Republican pissants... the 'progressive-socialists' who call themselves Democrats, call the tune!
It was repeated over and over in 2004 that if Bush were to be reelected, the RATs would try to dominiate the news with some impeachment angle related to the war.
This is not news, it was expected and has been in the planning stages for months by the RATs.
"Here we go", indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Full-court press'?
Smear, smear, smear.
Delay, delay, delay.
Impugn, impugn, impugn.
I'm gonna hurl.
Here is the part of the Rycroft memo that has the DEMS a'twitter;
Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
Remember, this is BRIT-speak and the reading of "being fixed around the policy" means only that it was being set in place...i.e to be fixed. Not the suspicious American slang of being rigged.
If you read it again, the Kerry way, it doesn't make sense in that the sentence prior to it states BUSH wanted to remove Saddam through military action...followed by the counter argument "But the intellicence..."
For all of his international nuance, Kerry is a monumental DORK.
It was predicted before the election that the DemonRats would try this.
They succeeded with Nixon,, now they want to do the same thing with Bush.
This may be a reason why that slimy weasel "deep Throat" crawled out from under a rock.
Thgere must be an accounting with the far left, ant-American Bolsheviks - sooner or later.
They are destroying us and opening us up to invasion, social collapse, and economic decay.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Let them bring this out on Monday - Tony Blair will be at the WH w the Prez on Tues, and, I believe they're giving a presser. I suspect this will come up in the presser. Mr. Blair often has a way w words - I hope he gives some good soundbites as to what a bunch of sorry *ss losers these Dims, and especially sKerry are.
They'll beat GW over the head with this regardless of the fact that this complicates the war on 'terror', our motivation for preemptive attack, etc.. Just think. Twenty four months of nonstop MSM impeachment hysteria -- Hillary's dream plan. Meanwhile, Bill has lunch in Kennebunkport and whines that he was framed. (Kerry thinks he's found the key to another run for himself. He's delusional.)
Kerry has the attention span of the average American.....
30 minutes......
Time of a TV sitcom!
I can't wait to see this forgery turn to sh*t in both hands.
That's my take also. "Packaged" or "customized" might even be more precise terms. That the policy was in place changes absolutely nothing regarding the intel, if the intel is/was there. If the intel was shoddy, it takes nothing away from Bush or Blair. Someome questions might be raised regarding the "gathering" of the original intel.
This memo is far from a "gotcha", but it won't stop the MSM from furiously stirring that bucket o' $hit. It's what they do.
FGS
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/libera.htm
The Iraq Liberation Act
October 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998." This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers.
Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are: The United States wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and law-abiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies within the region.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq's history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life.
My Administration has pursued, and will continue to pursue, these objectives through active application of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. The evidence is overwhelming that such changes will not happen under the current Iraq leadership.
In the meantime, while the United States continues to look to the Security Council's efforts to keep the current regime's behavior in check, we look forward to new leadership in Iraq that has the support of the Iraqi people. The United States is providing support to opposition groups from all sectors of the Iraqi community that could lead to a popularly supported government.
On October 21, 1998, I signed into law the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which made $8 million available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition. This assistance is intended to help the democratic opposition unify, work together more effectively, and articulate the aspirations of the Iraqi people for a pluralistic, participa--tory political system that will include all of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious groups. As required by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY 1998 (Public Law 105-174), the Department of State submitted a report to the Congress on plans to establish a program to support the democratic opposition. My Administration, as required by that statute, has also begun to implement a program to compile information regarding allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by Iraq's current leaders as a step towards bringing to justice those directly responsible for such acts.
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 provides additional, discretionary authorities under which my Administration can act to further the objectives I outlined above. There are, of course, other important elements of U.S. policy. These include the maintenance of U.N. Security Council support efforts to eliminate Iraq's weapons and missile programs and economic sanctions that continue to deny the regime the means to reconstitute those threats to international peace and security. United States support for the Iraqi opposition will be carried out consistent with those policy objectives as well. Similarly, U.S. support must be attuned to what the opposition can effectively make use of as it develops over time. With those observations, I sign H.R. 4655 into law.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 31, 1998.
When two or more agree, in prayer, it shall be done for them. RoseofTexas, I agree with you, in prayer, Amen.
They've wanted payback for Clinton since 2000... they are socialists and their socialist policies are destroying the America we know.
They'll milk this BS for all the ink and air-time they can get... and the MSM will give it to'em. To hell with Bush's nominations and judicial confirmations... to hell with SS Reform!
All because they got the filabuster... the MSM and 7 Republican stooges in their back-pocket!
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