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.
Yes true.
I just don't understand why this is even coming up. If the UN had completed the weapons search then what? O.K. so they find no weapons, they go home, Saddam thus freed to do what he likes, builds a couple of WMD's lobs a couple at Israel, Iran and don't forget the suitcase bomb that goes off in Times Square.
Bush gets hammered "why didn't you protect us," they whine "we all knew he was a threat and you did nothing. Didn't we learn anything from 9/11!!!!!!!"
Cries of impeach Bush ring out on all the editorial pages across the land.
Wow were sure lucky that didn't happen and no one is screaming to impeach him for doing the right thing ..... oh wait.
>>>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.>>>
The thing is, with pushing this forward, they are accusing the leader of Great Britain of an impeachable offense as well, right? I mean they are doing some MAJOR insulting and insinuation to one of our greatest allies!!! But I guess that is irrelevant when you are trying to bring down W. Sheesh.
You mean like slashing tires, shooting out windows, storming campaign HQs, and using Crack to buy votes?
Weeze be here already.
He's going to have to release his records at some point, his primary opponents (Hillary, Edwards, Bayh, etc..) are sure to use that against him if he continues to resist. And, if those records are damning the MSM will be forced into action, against their will, and Kerry will be in very big trouble.
Who do lefties hate possibly more than Bush? Why, Dick Cheney! They'd LOVE it if he became president instead! Har!
John Kerry is making a fool of himself, of Congress, and of those Americans whose interests he has been elected to represent, yet again.
Mark
In order to "present" this "info" Kerry would have to actually show up at the senate and we all know thats not going to happen.
It sure will be something to see here from the sidelines. Don't forget too that Kennedy is/was in Kerry's camp (I say was because Hillary just recently hired a Kennedy flunkie as I recall)...
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