Conyers writes dKos about damning memo from UK about Bush's fabrication!

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/2/16258/65970

Creating Reasons to Go to War

by Congressman John Conyers
Mon May 2nd, 2005 at 13:02:58 PDT

Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers. The London Times reports that the British government and the United States government had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in 2002, before authorization was sought for such an attack in Congress, and had discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing so.

The Times reports, based on a newly discovered document, that in 2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair chaired a meeting in which he expressed his support for "regime change" through the use of force in Iraq and was warned by the nation's top lawyer that such an action would be illegal. Blair also discussed the need for America to "create" conditions to justify the war.

The document itself is revealing as it indicates that "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." This is the British government proclaiming foreknowledge of the manipulation of intelligence many of us have alleged for some time.

It also quotes the British Foreign Secretary as stating about the case for war: "the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force."

This should not be allowed to fall down the memory hole during wall-to-wall coverage of the Michael Jackson trial and a runaway bride. To prevent that from occuring, I am circulating the following letter among my House colleagues and asking them to sign on to it:

May ___, 2005

The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We write because of troubling revelations in the Sunday London Times apparently confirming that the United States and Great Britain had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in the summer of 2002, well before the invasion and before you even sought Congressional authority to engage in military action. While various individuals have asserted this to be the case before, including Paul O'Neill, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Richard Clarke, a former National Security Council official, they have been previously dismissed by your Administration. However, when this story was divulged last weekend, Prime Minister Blair's representative claimed the document contained "nothing new." If the disclosure is accurate, it raises troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war as well as the integrity of your own Administration.

The Sunday Times obtained a leaked document with the minutes of a secret meeting from highly placed sources inside the British Government. Among other things, the document revealed:
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BTW, this relates back to my post here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3580316&mesg_id=3580316

and here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3580316&mesg_id=3580509&page=
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because it annoys me so much that this is getting NO COVERAGE in the media.

Conyers unsolicited voice on a blog might mean that we are siphoning off the bread and butter of the MSM. I guess he feels that this is the only way to get his message out. Excellent.

If this country cared when a smoking gun was waved in their face.

I'm afraid, however, that we're so far into comfortably numb that Gas prices will hit $4 a gallon and Bush could be caught on TV molesting a goat and 51% of the people would still be making excuses for why it was all spin by the "liberal media"

I fear we've have gone far beyond right and wrong now...we're in the control of a group who cares about power...not right, not wrong...just power...and somehow they've tapped into popular apathy and it's going to take something far beyond PROOF to remove them.

Perhaps if we took away everyone's 24/7 pacifiers they'd start to wake up.

about this appalling discovery...Why aren't there more voices added to his? Why does it seem that this man is the only voice that shouts out for justice and what is right?

:shrug:

:kick:

"The Defence Secretary said that the US had already begun "spikes of activity" to put pressure on the regime. No decisions had been taken, but he thought the most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections."

Now, surprisingly enough, we don't often give calendar dates in the UK as being relative to US congressional elections. Obviously, the Republicans were planning on a 'patriotic' vote from the start - and to their discredit, the British Labour party seemed quite happy to go along with that.

Where are the other Democrats???!!!!!!