Originally published July 3 2005
National media has failed to investigate British Iraq documents
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
When documents suggesting that the war in Iraq was "fixed" regardless of nuclear and chemical weapons, many members of the national media turned a deaf ear. This article in Dissident Voice summarizes the important memos and discusses their relevance in a now-nonexistent investigation of the current administration.
The Downing Street Memo -- minutes of a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his advisors that reveals the U.S. was "fixing" the intelligence to support the Iraq War -- was not enough to get the mainstream U.S. media or members of Congress to take the issue seriously.
Why aren't they interviewing current and former U.S. military intelligence officials about these reports from the highest levels of the British government?
Isn't the media supposed to investigate and expose the truth for their readers and viewers?
And how about Congress -- shouldn't they be subpoenaing witnesses to testify under oath about pre-war intelligence gathering, the influence the Bush administration had on manipulating or misstating intelligence findings and whether intelligence was gathered to report the truth or designed to support a pre-ordained war?
Downing Street I: This memorandum is the minutes of a meeting between Britain's top national security officials and Prime Minister Blair on July 23, 2002 -- eight months before the invasion of Iraq.
By the summer of 2002 President Bush had decided to overthrow Iraq President Saddam Hussein by launching a war.
It discusses how to justify the Iraq War by "creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action, which might include an ultimatum for the return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq."
He notes the lack of support within the Parliament for a war with Iraq and sees the case as challenging to make because, "(a) the threat from Iraq and why this has got worse recently; (b) what distinguishes the Iraqi threat from that [of] Iran and North Korea so as to justify military action; (c) the justification for any military action in terms of international law."
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