Originally published July 3 2005
Possible implications of the Downing Street Memo
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Many critics of the Iraq occupation are citing the Downing street memo as evidence that the government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations, intelligence was packaged to both Congress and the American public, and the Bush Administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
The Downing Street "Memo" is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002---eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
The Sunday Times printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005.
Together they paint a picture of a President intent on invasion, and a loyal ally troubled both by how it could be justified and by what it would bring.
This site is intended as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the meaning and context of these documents as they relate to the Bush administration's case for war.
The July 23, 2002 minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was packaged to sell the case for war to both Congress and the American public; and how the Bush Administration's public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
No one in the Bush or Blair administrations has denied the authenticity of any of these documents.
Yet the President and those involved in building the case for war continue to simultaneously sidestep the issue while conspicuously avoiding any comment on the legitimacy of the documents.
The facts revealed in these secret government documents demand a response.
The American people deserve to know if they were misled into war.
Please join us in calling on Congress to take up this issue and give the Downing Street Memos the fair and public hearing they require.More than two years after the start of the Iraq War, Americans are just learning that our government was dead set on invasion, even while it claimed to be pursuing diplomacy.
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