another smoking gun
Jun. 12th, 2005 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonDo you think the U.S. news media will bother to cover this at all? Is there any chance that the U.S. population at large will ever wake up and realize what was completely obvious to those of us on the "fringe" all along, that we were being fed a pack of lies from Bush & Co from beginning to end, and that war with Iraq was inevitable the moment the Supreme Court gave Bush the presidency? Stay tuned...
I seem to remember that the former president Clinton was brought up on impeachment proceedings for perjury, specifically for lying to Congress about having received oral sex from an intern. Seems to me that evidence is swiftly mounting that Bush and his administration lied to the U.N., to the American public, and not least of all, to Congress, about a far more serious issue -- promising flat out that every alternative short of war with Iraq would be attempted, and that taking this country and its citizens to war was an absolute last resort. From the British memos (and endless thanks to whatever warriors for truth across the pond are finally leaking these documents), proof is emerging that the U.S., far from making any genuine attempt at peace, was cynically using the U.N. as a tool all along to try to instigate war. Where are the demands for an investigation of Bush for this blatant perjury, and the calls for his impeachment?
Not to be paranoid, but one thing that does scare me is that, if not for the necessity of British involvement in the Iraq war, and the paper trail that involved, none of this information would be coming out now. In other words, within the U.S. government itself, there was not one single person with integrity to be found who had this information and felt morally compelled to release it at any point over the last three years. It makes you wonder what other such dishonorable strategems the Bush administration has planned and is planning.
Excerpt:
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal.
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I seem to remember that the former president Clinton was brought up on impeachment proceedings for perjury, specifically for lying to Congress about having received oral sex from an intern. Seems to me that evidence is swiftly mounting that Bush and his administration lied to the U.N., to the American public, and not least of all, to Congress, about a far more serious issue -- promising flat out that every alternative short of war with Iraq would be attempted, and that taking this country and its citizens to war was an absolute last resort. From the British memos (and endless thanks to whatever warriors for truth across the pond are finally leaking these documents), proof is emerging that the U.S., far from making any genuine attempt at peace, was cynically using the U.N. as a tool all along to try to instigate war. Where are the demands for an investigation of Bush for this blatant perjury, and the calls for his impeachment?
Not to be paranoid, but one thing that does scare me is that, if not for the necessity of British involvement in the Iraq war, and the paper trail that involved, none of this information would be coming out now. In other words, within the U.S. government itself, there was not one single person with integrity to be found who had this information and felt morally compelled to release it at any point over the last three years. It makes you wonder what other such dishonorable strategems the Bush administration has planned and is planning.
Excerpt:
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal.
...
