More Downing Street memos leaked

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A total of 8 memo's, 36 pages have now been linked as being reported today by various media outlets. Most troubling to me was the disclosure that Condi Rice dined with Toni Blair's chief foreign policy advisor 6 months after 9/11 the then US National Security advisor didn't want to discuss Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida. She wanted to talk about regime change in Iraq. If you follow the timelines in the memo's carefully and include what was going on in this country, a picture emerges of a President and Administration that was hell bent on overthrowing even knowing to do this they had to mislead all of us.

Here are some quotes from the memos:

"US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing. To get a public and Parliamentary support for military operations, we have to be convincing that the threat is so serious/imminent that it is worth sending out troops to die for; it is qualitatively different from the threat posed by other proliferators who are closer to achieving nuclear capability (including Iran)."

Peter Ricketts, British Foreign office political director, openly asks whether the Bush Administration had a clear compelling military reason for war. "US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing," "For Iraq, 'regime change' does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam."

Couple this with the writings of former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, who claimed they were working on Iraq even before 9/11, and Condi Rice's statement before the 9/11 Commission, when asked the reason we went to Iraq and the first reason out of her mouth was that Saddam attempted an assassination of George W.'s father, and you have a President who misled us for as much personal reasons as anything else. To me this is an impeachable offense if there ever was one. Let's see where this Congress goes with it. I'll bet nowhere!