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June 20, 2005

Downingstreet Memo-gate

[Turnpike Feminist] The Downing Street “Memo” is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002—a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

http://donspoliticalblog.blogspot.com [The Ward Report] Blair's 'Memo-gate': A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that President Bush had firmly made up his mind to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, adding that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".

Democrats.comhttp://www.democrats.com [Democrats.com] Downing Street Memogate: Iraq-war Inquiry Still Needed - Des ...: The memo caused an uproar in Britain just before the recent election but has received little attention in the US, except as a hot topic in the blogosphere. (It's going to get a LOT Hotter!)

[Blogd.com] The Blog From Another Dimension: Memogate: So what kind of media do we have if half-baked political scandals around decades-old land deals or extramarital affairs gain huge years-long media attacks, but proof that the president massively lied over years to force America into an unwanted war where so far 1631 American have been killed, thousands more maimed for life, and tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been slaughtered--is met with almost complete silence and disinterest from news organizations?

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Posted at June 20, 2005 10:48 AM

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