Bush LIED about WMD

POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 02:00
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JCKNIFE

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:12 PM

WTF? I haven't abandoned my president! The memo is a joke!

Hey, Aljazeera has picked up the story. That should help the London Times with credability.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service
_ID=8465

SIGNYM

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:24 PM

Well, the Blair government hasn't denied it and the London Times hasn't retracted it. Ahem.... gurrrrrkk... mphhh... Sorry, I just can't help it! ....

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

JCKNIFE

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:25 PM

Here's another part of the memo that you left out:

Quote:
Conclusions:

(a) We should work on the assumption that the UK would take part in any military action.

Why would they assume their own participation in military action if it were grounded in falsehoods?

I think instead of ketchup for us you need a spoonful of sugar to help the medecine go down.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:28 PM

Because the Iraq government was about to sign large oil contracts with France and Russia once Iraq was cleared by Blix? Because Iraq wasn't about to accept US dollars? Because BP wanted the oil too????

WOW, naive as all hell, ain't ya?

Okay, I'm done talking with you. Have a nice life.

ODDNESS2HER

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:30 PM

Just out of curiosity, JC: Who would you consider a reputable news source?

SERGEANTX

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:45 PM

Lately I've been seeing bumper stickers that say "Bush lied and you knew".

That pretty much sums it up for me and it's why I've lost all faith in the 51% of our nation that supported him anyway. I think the vast bulk of them knew damn well he lied AND JUST DIDN'T CARE. That, to me, condemns them to whatever disasters their pig-headed tunnel vision brings about. They deserve it. The only problem is, the other 49% will have to suffer along with them. Ain't democracy grand?

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

JCKNIFE

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:58 PM

Wow, you guys are too busy looking for black helicopters to focus on reality. I'll chalk it up to sour grapes and see you at the polls next time--unless you move to Canada by then.

SERGEANTX

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:28 PM

I don't throw 'pig-headed' out there as some kind of generic insult. It's an insult to be sure, but a very specific one. It applies to people who are shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that their convictions are based on delusion or deception - and they just don't care! In fact, they'll gloat in their stupidity, proud of their steadfast ignorance. This is why democracy is failing us and why it's time for the minority stand up and fight off the drooling masses.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

BYTETHEBULLET

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JCKnife:
Wow, you guys are too busy looking for black helicopters to focus on reality. I'll chalk it up to sour grapes and see you at the polls next time--unless you move to Canada by then.

Yeah, I remember tons of folks saying they would move if good ole Bush won. Why haven't they left yet?

ByteTheBullet (-:

RUE

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:02 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005
050402368.html
It all suddenly changed when leaked memos on Iraq seemed to confirm that Blair had promised Bush he would go to war to depose Saddam Hussein long before he had come clean with the British people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005
050500289.html
The results follow a short, sharp and highly personalized campaign in which opponents claimed Blair had lied about the reasons for going to war and could no longer be trusted.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200505090005

In his weekly column, Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler reported without comment that readers had criticized the newspaper for ignoring a leaked British memo on the Iraq war published in the British Sunday Times.

Getler's failure to offer a judgment about the Post's editorial decision is remarkable, not only because he regularly responds in his column to reader criticisms, but because of the explosive content of the memo. The memo indicates that Britain's intelligence minister reported after a trip to the United States that President Bush had decided to go to war in Iraq in the summer of 2002, and "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around" the decision that had already been made. In contrast to the U.S. media, U.K. news outlets devoted considerable coverage to the memo, and its disclosure reportedly had a significant impact on the Labour Party's loss of seats in the House of Commons.

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