Knight Ridder: Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy

By WARREN P. STROBEL and JOHN WALCOTT

Knight Ridder Newspapers

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/11574258.htm

WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.

The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war.

"There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable," the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, according to the memo. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," weapons of mass destruction.

The memo said "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

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I cld not believe this is not in LBN yet. It is on the front page of this morning's Charlotte Observer. Once again Knight Ridder provides a semblance of non-whorishness to the corporate media cartel.

I said - Why did you lie in your headline that the memo only hints that the intel was fixed when the memo clearly states it was being fixed and your own Knight-Ridder reporters were reporting this exact same news since Oct. 2002?

I suggest others call in and do the same. 704-358-5040.

BUSH LIED
ABOUT REASONS FOR GOING TO WAR

In times of war the President controls all media. It may not be a real war but the War Powers are.

to fit.

Here is RED Jacksonville, FL...it was nowhere to be found


Edit: and it is Knight Ridder

I wrote an angry LTTE to my paper on Tuesday about their yellow bellied burying of this story. STILL no mention of it there...

This story must get to the people, especially the television news!

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11574258.htm

and my cookies know it. :)

i forwarded this article to friends and family.

Any ideas had we can push this to MSM, the Bee didn't even reference on the front page.

important news.

They'll print what they want you to be aware of and believe - Amerika!

Especially if they went on TV and used some very pointed language.

The Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002265205_intel06.html

Conyers on Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/6/113947/8072

Conyers own Blog:
http://www.conyersblog.us/


88 Member signatures!

and I believe many of us on this site wrote Conyers, I did. This is not new news. Wonder what happened to get the story out there in some newspapers now? This is good news, maybe it will snowball, kinda doubt it but - - and yes where are our other representatives on this issue?

In the election are a direct result of this memo, I can't see how the Amurican media can cover the british election without taking this into consideration in their analysis.

In related news 88 members of the house have addressed this question, but why only 88?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1450156

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printed oh say 25-30 copies of the memo and left them at laundromats, gas stations, bus terminals, coffee shops etc?

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Left 20 copies in the kitchen. They're all gone. I'm waiting on the Repug owner to start trying to find out who left them there. I don't think he will be very happy when he finds out about them.

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I know what I'm doing tomorrow!

I think I'll leave say, 100 in a few places.

I certainly think it proves impeachable offenses, but I have to wonder why it's going to matter now?

true. Not many Americans, even the ones that complain about Bush here on the DU, want to admit that this regime is controlled, evil, and has duped them many times. The only way this could be true is that they have succumbed to their inner most racist, sexist, hypocritical, ignorant, intolerant conscientiousness which is not how they want to see themselves.

it will not make on bit of difference in how the sheeple feel because they don't care anymore.

This administration has been so far over the top that it doesn't phase anyone anymore. There will be no outrage. And the beat goes on.

People don't want to know the worst. The loss of democracy, the loss of innocence, the loss of integrity, who gives a fuck?

It's scary to think what you say, may be true. I've noticed that this isn't NEARLY as huge as the thread(S) regarding the NC Church who excommunicated the democrat members. As I have said before, I think everyday, major abuses are being reported..here (not in the corporate media) and people may be getting exhausted and overwhelmed by trying to put out the fire, day in and day out. Almost as though they're being defeated by a strong NASTY wind, and the blaze goes further and goes higher and gets hotter.

I know when I'm overwhelmed, I get less done, than I would on a day that I only have a few things going on, and I'm not so bogged down.

We here at DU have known for a long time that Bush wanted this war and made the intel fit. This has been discussed many times in these forums.

I feel that halobeam is right -- we read these incriminating stories regarding the rethugs and nothing ever happens. It kind of "takes the wind out of your sails after awhile." I often feel that there is nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. So, I read what has been posted and go on my way.

Besides...we all know that we are preaching to the choir here. It doesn't mean that we don't care, but how many times and ways can you say "Bush lied and people are dying."?

Just my two cents worth.

Check GD and GDP.

Anyone know?

Have they commented publicaly or in any forum on this important issue?

And demand that they act on this.

Of media people in the USA and Overseas and some politicans email addresses also.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm

Now John Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the UN makes more sense. When Bolton told aides who said Syria and Cuba did NOT have WMDs to shove it, he was simply following in the footsteps of his mentor, da Shrub. Hey, it's simple! If the facts contradict the objective, lie, lie, and lie some more.

There's a line on that show that fits this perfectly.

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People (those who are not very aware and others) are just burnt out on anything political.

I hear it all the time. I bring up this stuff and all I get is, "So what? Will it change anything? We're stuck with him."

And I YELL (yes, YELL) -- "One word for you, IMPEACHMENT!"

I mean, can't they get the "blowjob" vs. "DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS" connection?

Sheesh.

Sick, I tell you... makes me sick.

How many people are hitting brick walls, when they try to wake up these people?

In return, they tire out. Hence, an apathetic epidemic.

i consider it bearing witness, something i learned in the 60s.


i counsel my adult daughter never to give up either, because the coming decades are going to be rough.

I was thinking of asking for a "despair and angst" forum from Skinner but ask the admin is gone! I guess that's my answer. Sorry a little black humour.

The quote is from a U2 song and it's simple to be profound. Giving up is all they want.

It's my response to election '04 and this story has me in tatters again because it's all there and the silence is overwhelming.

and sometimes i begin to 'feel' it myself but not for very long. i am not going to give up til the day i die. and maybe not after...i have to rewrite a portion of my will.

This MEMO is PROOF of so much more than a single LIE.
It exposes HUNDREDS of bush* LIES.

*The excuse that bush* had bad intelligence is now a PROVEN LIE!

*The Hundreds of times bush* claimed that Congress had the SAME intelligence he had is NOW A PROVEN LIE!

*The Many pre-War claims that he hadn't made his mind up about Iraq IS NOW A PROVEN LIE!!

*The many times bush* claimed Saddam was a threat to the US were NOT mistakes, the statements are NOW PROVEN LIES!!

Hundreds of times (maybe thousands) George bush* stood before the WORLD and willfully and knowingly LIED and LIED and LIED to further his own selfish interests.

Someone needs to make a Video of just a few of these public appearances where it in now PROVEN that bush* was KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY telling LIES!!!!


I'm with Dr. Fate on this!

Where are the Democratic Leaders on THIS??
Why are they keeping silent ??
Why are they helping bush* LIE??
Their public silence on this ISSUE is an indictment of complicity!!!
They can NOW cover their OWN asses...bush* LIED TO THEM!!

Kerry, Clinton (Bill & Hillary), Dean, Pelosi, Reid, WHERE ARE YOU???

Humph. Nobody home. Guess I'll try someone else.

Hello, Senator Reid? Chairman Dean?

Hello? Hello?
(Sorry, the number you have reached is not in service)

...or getting red-staters all fired up over some dude going on golf trips with lobbyists.

Or as the Freepers like to say: HUGH!!!!!

or is it just an aberration?

My local paper published this story also - and I'm in Texas. Fortunately, the Star-Telegram here in Fort Worth is a Knight-Ridder paper so they often print the stories out of the K-R Washington Bureau, which is one of the only beltway news organizations with any guts left.

It makes me very happy I get the Star-Telegram instead of the Dallas Morning News, which is about as right-wing as the New York Post or the Washington Times.

What have high profile DEMs like Kerry, Dean, Hillary, Reid, etc said about this?

The memo confirms what most of us knew (believed) all along? Do you honestly think this will take Dumbya down? He's a "Good, Christian man and I believe in him" will be the response from the public.

It confirms that they deliberately planned talks of the attack to influence the 2002 elections, and they knew it would be illegal to go to war for "regime change".

on a silver platter. No takers yet? WHY NOT?