Saturday, June 11, 2005

new document- "smoking cannon"

 
The Sunday Times - Britain

June 12, 2005

(British) Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
by Michael Smith
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.

The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal...

The rest of the article is equally fascinating, and damaging.- recommended reading.

In the name of the God of truth,

Carol Wolman

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Fw:impeachment update

 
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Subject: [Afterdowningstreet] AfterDowningStreet Growing Fast

 

478,348 Signatures and Counting

With a big boost from MoveOn.org, the count of signatures on Congressman Conyers' letter to Bush asking for answers to the Downing Street Minutes is 478,348 and climbing. Clearly we will pass the goal of 500,000 before the Congressman delivers the letter to the White House on Thursday and we all rally in Lafayette Square Park.

Sign the letter

http://www.johnconyers.com

 

 

124 Organizations and Growing Fast

Thus far 124 organizations and blogs have joined the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition. 

See top right of this page:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

 

 

We’ve Broken Into the Corporate Media

Editorials and even news articles are on the rise.  And television is starting to yawn and rub its eyes in the sunlight.  See links below. 

 

Contact television networks:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5&page=1

 

Watch CNN on Sunday:

From Washington Post Listing: "Reliable Sources looks at coverage of the Downing Street memo and Hillary Rodham Clinton; with The Washington Post's John Harris, the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel and Opinion Journal's John Fund. Also, the New York Times's John Tierney talks about conservatives in the mainstream media (CNN, 11:30 a.m.)."

 

CONVERGE ON WASHINGTON

Hearings and Rally Planned for Thursday June 16:

Check the growing list of speakers for the rally and hearings in DC on Thursday.  The rally will be at Lafayette Square Park, in front of the White House, at either noon or 5 p.m. depending on the timing of the hearings, which we expect to post on the site on Monday.  You're invited to both events, so start planning now.

 

See top center of this page:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

 

Get organized in this discussion forum:

http://bigbrassblog.com/phpbb

 

If you are organizing a bus or are organizing a local rally in your town and want your name and contact info posted to the afterdowningstreet.org site, send it to david@davidswanson.org

 

 

Brits and Yanks Unite to Demand Answers

Read about our cross-Atlantic alliance and the court case being filed against Tony Blair by British military families:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=180

 

 

Advance Release Chapter of Ray McGovern's New Book

Veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern has released on the afterdowningstreet.org site a chapter of a forthcoming book.  This chapter is titled "Sham Dunk: Cooking Intelligence for the President."

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=168

 

 

ACTIVISM

 

Meet The People Who Will Stop This War

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=181

 

Call for Protest -- Fabricator Cheney Presenting "Journalism Award"

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=169

 

Bush and Mehlman Tour Nation to Hear Your Concerns

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=136

 

US Tour of Iraqi National Labor Leaders

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=134

 

 

CONGRESS

 

Memogate Hearings Scheduled for June 16

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=155

 

John Conyers and Deep Throat

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=126

 

Kerry Speaks Up

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=124

 

Conyers Talks About Bush Lying America Into War

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=115

 

Kennedy Speaks Out on Downing Street Minutes

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=88

 

 

EVIDENCE

 

Blood on the Hands of Our Complicit Corporate Media

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=163

 

Was Bustani ouster prelude to Iraq war?

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=160

 

The Lies We Bought: The Unchallenged Evidence for War

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=158

 

Bolton The Fixer

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=140

 

Where Did This Start?

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=137

 

Why Doesn’t the Post Love Walter Pincus?

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=133

 

US Gave Date of War to Britain in Advance, Court Papers Reveal

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=132

 

Richard Clarke's Testimony

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=128

 

Bush Planned Privately to Attack Iraq

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=123

 

Republican Platform in 2000 Called for Removal of Saddam Hussein

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=118

 

MI6, Jack Straw, defence staff: Blair ignored them all

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=116

 

James Bamford Says Facts Were Fixed

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=106

 

Eight officials who must be lying if Bush is telling the truth

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=198

 

Downing Street Minutes Agree With Other Evidence

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=92

 

 

MEDIA

 

David Swanson on Downing Street Memo

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=176

 

Kennedy insists Bush lied on Iraq; British memo: WMD irrelevant

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=174

 

More in Congress want Iraq exit strategy

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=172

 

Silence Is Bolton: Chemical John Is MIA in the NYT

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=161

 

Danish Media Reports Colin Powell Promised War

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=159

 

Deep Throat II

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=157

 

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=156

 

Washington confronts 'memogate'

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=153

 

Bush & Blair/Iraq denials raise questions

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=152

 

Editorial: Was intelligence 'fixed'?

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=151

 

CNN Reports on Why It's Not Reporting on the Downing Street Minutes

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=150

 

The last laugh

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=148

 

Downing Street minutes that lasted for months

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=145

 

Pour on the Media

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=143

 

Better, But Still A Poodle

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=141

 

Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=127

 

 

ADS is a coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

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