Originally published July 5 2005
Media finally covering Downing Street memos
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Associated Press -- the primary source of news for most of America's print and broadcast media -- is finally writing about the seven Downing Street memos, which contain minutes of cabinet meetings held by the British government after meeting with their U.S. counterparts in 2002, revealing U.S. intentions to invade Iraq long before there was justification.
The memos provide confirmation for what those who opposed the war against Iraq knew from the start: the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the White House was simply looking for enough rhetorical fig leaves to cover their naked aggression.
The Associated Press, the primary source of news for most of America's print and broadcast media, is finally writing about the seven memos, which are basically minutes of cabinet meetings held by the Blair government after meeting with their U.S. counterparts in 2002.
While others have reported upon the memos, for most newspapers it's not news until the AP reports upon it..
They see President Bush's approval ratings in freefall and see that Americans no long have the stomach for an occupation that could last for decades, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently said.
The trouble was, most people - including the corporate press - weren't paying attention.
The Washington Post and The New York Times are all saying that the Downing Street Memos are old news.
So were the Pentagon Papers, but that didn't stop these papers from printing excerpts back in 1971, when we still had an adversarial and independent press.
- According to the Times of London, British and American warplanes increased the number and intensity of bombing raids on Iraq beginning in May 2002.
The idea was to provoke Saddam Hussein into retaliation and provide a pretext for a U.S. invasion.
Saddam never retaliated, but the raids, aimed at air defense and communications sites, made the "shock and awe" raids, when the war began in March 2003, that much easier.
"The U.S. government's military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace," stated a July 21, 2002, briefing paper.
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