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[Iddybud] Downing Street/Iraq War Propaganda Updates: *inspired by Atrios and the smug and unconcerned Michael Kinsley, who is happy to shrug his shoulders in an "I already knew-that" style and tell us that he's not surprised that Bush would fix intelligence and facts to fit a desired policy. This is the same Michael Kinsley who said, back in 2003, that the debate about WMD’s existence was always really academic, and that most people had moved on even though the WMD was never found.

[Ramblings from My Mind] Radical Right Rewrites History....: hype, new details on that same story are still being ignored or left uninvestigated. The July 2002 "Downing Street memo," the minutes of a meeting in which Tony Blair and his advisers learned of a White House effort to fix "the intelligence and facts" to justify the war in Iraq, was published by The London Sunday Times on May 1. Yet in the 19 daily Scott McClellan briefings that followed, the memo was the subject of only 2 out of the approximately 940 questions asked by the White House press corps, according to Eric Boehlert of Salon.

[Truthout.org] Eric Boehlert | Bush Lied about War? Nope, No News There!:     At the Times, public editor Byron Calame noted that the paper was quick with a memo story from London on May 2, "but the news coverage languished until this morning [May 20] when a Times article from Washington focused on the reaction to the memo there. This has left Times readers pretty much in the dark until today -- and left critics of the paper's news columns to suspect the worst about its motives." Responding to a query by Calame regarding the paper's lack of coverage, Times Washington bureau chief Phil Taubman suggested the Downing memo was old news: "Given what has been reported about war planning in Washington, the revelations about the Downing Street meeting did not seem like a bolt from the blue."

[Salon.com] Salon.com News | Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!: Worse, in the case of the Downing Street memo, it simply refuses to ... "It may have been blog-induced in the beginning, but now it has legs of its own." ...

[Radioblogger.com] Radio Blogger: After Colorado Governor Bill Owens’ dressing down of Minne-so-cold Governor Tim Pawlenty's design selection abilities yesterday on the Hugh Hewitt Show (full transcript courtesy of RadioBlogger) -- all over the designs on a two-bit piece of amalgamated elements of the periodic table – the gents (and you really have to use that term loosely) of Fraters Libertas have challenged The Rocky Mountain Alliance and the vast army of Colorado bloggers to a ‘challenge.’

[Bradblog.com] THE BRAD BLOG: "Washington Post Buries Page 1 Sunday Story on Iraq ...: Washington, D. C.: In the Post's early Sunday edition available Saturday night Walter Pincus' article referencing the Downing Street memo's claims that the administration "fixed" the intelligence and facts leading up to the invasion of Iraq, was above the fold on the front page with the headline, "More Evidence of Bush Aides' Doubts on Iraq." But come Sunday morning the article was off the front page and all the way back on pages 25-6. Why was a story the Post finally deemed important enough to be front paged, taken off?

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