Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Downing Street secret memo

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The secret memo that many in the US have not seen, except through other bloggers, is available by going to this web page:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
It is being advanced by Democracy for America group as well as other liberal Democratic web sites. You should make up your own mind as to conclusions to be drawn. Mine was that there were a few lines that specifically said that Bush and the Administration were making intelligence fit their case to invade Iraq, but it didn't say they were making up intelligence, as some have claimed. Also, it is not clear as to the authors prejudice but we all have some. It is a damaging memo if you believe that, all along, the President and Vice President and other neocons within the Administration felt a score needed to be settled with Saddam. I can't blame George W. for that, as if someone had tried to assassinate my father I would want to get back at them too. The thing that is troubling to me is that there weren't cooler heads around this President. But there seems to have been ideologues that just wanted a grander scheme to have a chance at success and so they used this opportunity to fool all of us by deceit. For that I am angry.

3 Comments:

Blogger Alan Stewart Carl said...

Wow. An actual intelligent take on the Downing Street Memo. Nice.

-Alan
www.yellowlineblog.com

9:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wait, if all intelligence is faulty. Now it's suddenly right on target?

It's an opinion letter by a british flunky.

Hey, if they were so smart, how did we become the United States of America?

9:28 AM  
Blogger Meegan said...

I would also be pissed off if someone tried to assassinate my dad. But I wouldn't lie about my reasons and then sacrifice thousands of Americans and Iraqis for it.

8:05 PM  

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