Fw: [Afterdowningstreet] TIME AND PLACE FIXED FOR THURSDAY RALLY

 

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Subject: [Afterdowningstreet] TIME AND PLACE FIXED FOR THURSDAY RALLY

 

1. TIME AND PLACE FIXED FOR THURSDAY RALLY

 

2. NEW BRITISH DOCUMENTS LEAKED

 

1. Hearings and Rally

On Thursday June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and other Congress Members will hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.  (Time and place yet to be determined.)

 

Later on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square Park, in front of the White House, a large rally will support Congressman Conyers who plans to deliver to the White House a letter addressed to President Bush and signed by over 500,000 Americans and at least 94 Congress Members.  The letter asks the President to respond to questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes.

 

Among those speaking at the hearings will be: Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert; Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular Presidential briefings during the Reagan administration; Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen American soldier; John Bonifaz, renowned constitutional lawyer and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org.

 

Among those speaking at the rally will be: Congressman Conyers and various other Congress Members, Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace, John Bonifaz of AfterDowningStreet.org, Ray McGovern former CIA analyst, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of Progressive Democrats of America, Stephen Cleghorn of Military Families Speak Out.  More information, and flyers promoting the rally, are available at www.afterdowningstreet.org

 

Flyers to print, copy, and distribute widely:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rally.pdf

 

LOCAL RALLIES PLANNED AROUND COUNTRY

Supporters of this campaign are independently organizing rallies on Thursday at locations around the country.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=211

 

2. New Documents

AfterDowningStreet.org has made available additional secret documents leaked from the British government.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=205

 

Statements from leaders of the AfterDowningStreet.org Coalition:

 

"The UK Iraq War documents provide a roadmap for U.S. investigators, the media and Congress. Shame on them if they become complicit in the coverup and do not pursue them.  It is time to interview current and former intelligence officials about whether they were asked to 'fix' the intelligence, whether intelligence was designed to convince people to support the already planned war or whether intelligence was intended to provide real information about whether Iraq was a threat.  Public opinion has turned against the war -- it is now safe to report the truth."

Kevin Zeese of Democracy Rising

 

"George Bush may think that his lone 'accountability moment' was last November's election, but as these new documents show that he planned all along to invade Iraq and lie as needed, his real 'accountability moment' may be yet to come -- in the form of a House of Representatives Resolution of Inquiry into impeachable offenses.  That resolution cannot come to soon for Veterans For Peace or for the people of Iraq, whose deaths and suffering demand justice.

Mike Ferner, Veterans for Peace

 

"Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is committed to continue to organize at the grassroots level with this coalition to demand Members of Congress introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the House Judiciary Committee to launch a formal investigation into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach George W. Bush.  Citizens from across the country will be on the ground in Washington DC this Thursday at the hearing and rally to demonstrate their resolve."

Tim Carpenter, Director of PDA

 

"My son was killed and my family destroyed by a war in Iraq that was premeditated and prefabricated. My son was killed by people in power who wanted this invasion and occupation at all costs.  Anyone who lied to us about this invasion should be brought to justice.  I am heart broken and devastated that my son was already a dead man by July 2002, if not sooner. We didn't even know. We had no way of knowing that our leaders were planning to engage in this massive subversion of the United States Constitution.  I urge every person in this country with courage and integrity to rise up and demand that the truth be finally exposed to the light and that those in power who are responsible, including the President of the United States, be held accountable under the rule of law."

Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace

 

 

AfterDowningStreet.org is a rapidly growing 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.

 

Contacts:

David Swanson david@davidswanson.org 202-329-7847

Jonathan Schwarz jonathan_schwarz@sbcglobal.net 773-296-0838

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Wisonsin State Dems: Impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld too

http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/local//index.php?ntid=43364&nt_adsect=edit

 

Return to story State Dems: Impeach Bush Cheney, Rumsfeld too By David Callender June 13, 2005 Wisconsin Democrats are calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Loyalists at this weekend's state party convention in Oshkosh passed a resolution calling for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against the three officials for their role in the war in Iraq. The resolution contends that the administration "lied or misled" the United Nations, Congress, and the American public about the justification for the war. It cites the so-called "Downing Street memo" from British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, as well as reports from U.N. weapons inspectors as evidence of widespread deception. "Democrats, not only in Wisconsin but throughout the U.S., have been outraged by what we believe has been a clear cover-up of why the U.S. went into Iraq," said newly elected state party Chairman Joe Wineke. Wineke said the resolution expresses the "the sense of frustration that Democrats in Wisconsin have over fighting a war for the wrong reasons." Wisconsin Democrats are not the first to pass such a resolution. The Nevada state party passed a similar resolution calling for Bush's ouster last year. And both the state and national Green Party, as well as former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, have called for Bush's impeachment because of his handling of the war in Iraq. But with both houses of Congress in Republican hands, the resolution will not likely result in any congressional action, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It's the sort of thing you might imagine spreads among opposition parties, but it is so far from the political reality of anything that could happen in Washington that it makes your party look a little ridiculous," he said. What's more, he added, even if the House of Representatives began impeachment proceedings against the president and vice president, "I don't think you can impeach the secretary of defense." Return to story
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Fw: More Evidence That 911 Was an Inside Job.

 

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Subject: FW: Fascism Alert: More Evidence That the Crime of the Century (911/WTC Towers 1,2 and 7 Collapses) Was an Inside Job.

 

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From: Gary Kohls [mailto:gkohls@cpinternet.com]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:26 AM
To: Gary Kohls
Subject: Fascism Alert: More Evidence That the Crime of the Century (911/WTC Towers 1,2 and 7 Collapses) Was an Inside Job.

 

Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And 'Inside Job'

Highly recognized former chief economist in Labor Department now doubts official 9/11 story, claiming suspicious facts and evidence cover-up indicate government foul play and possible criminal implications.

June 12, 2005

By Greg Szymanski

A former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's first term now believes the official story about the collapse of the WTC is 'bogus,' saying it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

"If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling," said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a  former member of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, also believes it's 'next to impossible' that 19 Arab Terrorists alone outfoxed the mighty U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions about the WTC collapse may hold the key to the entire mysterious plot behind 9/11.

"It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7," said Reynolds this week from his offices at Texas A&M.  "If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings.

"More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would follow if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded the WTC. Meanwhile, the job of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers everywhere is to get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9/11 right."

However, Reynolds said  "getting it right in today's security state' remains challenging because he claims explosives and structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9/11.

From the beginning, the Bush administration claimed that burning jet fuel caused the collapse of the towers. Although many independent investigators have disagreed, they have been hard pressed to disprove the government theory since most of the evidence was removed by FEMA prior to independent investigation.

Critics claim the Bush administration has tried to cover-up the evidence and the recent 9/11 Commission has failed to address the major evidence contradicting the official version of 9/11.

Some facts demonstrating the flaws in the government jet fuel theory include:

-- Photos showing people walking around in the hole in the North Tower where 10,000 gallons of jet fuel supposedly was burning..

--When the South Tower was hit, most of the North Tower's flames had already vanished, burning for only 16 minutes, making it relatively easy to contain and control without a total collapse.

--The fire did not grow over time, probably because it quickly ran out of fuel and was suffocating, indicating without added explosive devices the firs could have been easily controlled.

--FDNY fire fighters still remain under a tight government gag order  to not discuss the explosions they heard, felt and saw. FAA personnel are also under a similar 9/11 gag order.

--Even the flawed 9/11 Commission Report acknowledges that "none of the [fire] chiefs present believed that a total collapse of either tower was possible."


-- Fire had never before caused steel-frame buildings to collapse except for the three buildings on 9/11, nor has fire collapsed any steel high rise since 9/11.

-- The fires, especially in the South Tower and WTC-7, were relatively small.

-- WTC-7 was unharmed by an airplane and had only minor fires on the seventh and twelfth floors of this 47-story steel building yet it collapsed in less than 10 seconds.

-- WTC-5 and WTC-6 had raging fires but did not collapse despite much thinner steel beams.

-- In a PBS documentary, Larry Silverstein, the WTC leaseholder, told the fire department commander on 9/11 about WTC-7 that. "may be the smartest thing to do is pull it," slang for demolish it.

-- It's difficult if not impossible for hydrocarbon fires like those fed by jet fuel (kerosene) to raise the temperature of steel close to melting.

Despite the numerous holes in the government story, the Bush administration has brushed aside or basically ignored any and all critics. Mainstream experts, speaking for the administration, offer a theory essentially arguing that an airplane impact weakened each structure and an intense fire thermally weakened structural components, causing buckling failures while allowing the upper floors to pancake onto the floors below.

One who supports the official account is Thomas Eager, professor of materials engineering and engineering systems at MIT. He argues that the collapse occurred by the extreme heat from the fires, causing the loss of loading-bearing capacity on the structural frame.

Eagar points out the steel in the towers could have collapsed only if heated to the point where it "lost 80 percent of its strength," or around 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit.  Critics claim his theory is flawed since the fires did not appear to be intense and widespread enough to reach such high temperatures.

Other experts supporting the official story claim the impact of the airplanes, not the heat, weakened the entire structural system of the towers, but critics contend the beams on floors 94-98 did not appear severely weakened, much less the entire structural system.

Further complicating the matter, hard evidence to fully substantiate either theory since evidence is lacking due to FEMA's quick removal of the structural steel before it could be analyzed. Even though the criminal code requires that crime scene evidence be kept for forensic analysis, FEMA had it destroyed or shipped overseas before a serious investigation could take place.

And even more doubt is cast over why FEMA acted so swiftly since coincidentally officials had arrived the day before the 9/11 attacks at New York's Pier 29 to conduct a war game exercise, named "Tripod II."

Besides FEMA's quick removal of the debris, authorities considered the steel quite valuable as New York City officials had every debris truck tracked on GPS and even fired one truck driver who took an unauthorized lunch break.

In a detailed analysis just released supporting the controlled demolition theory, Reynolds presents a compelling case.


"First, no steel-framed skyscraper, even engulfed in flames hour after hour, had ever collapsed before. Suddenly, three stunning collapses occur within a few city blocks on the same day, two allegedly hit by aircraft, the third not," said Reynolds. "These extraordinary collapses after short-duration minor fires made it all the more important to preserve the evidence, mostly steel girders, to study what had happened.

"On fire intensity, consider this benchmark: A 1991 FEMA report on Philadelphia's Meridian Plaza fire said that the fire was so energetic that 'beams and girders sagged and twisted, but despite this extraordinary exposure, the columns continued to support their loads without obvious damage.' Such an intense fire with consequent sagging and twisting steel beams bears no resemblance to what we observed at the WTC."


After considering both sides of the 9/11 debate and after thoroughly sifting through all the available material, Reynolds concludes the government story regarding all four plane crashes on 9/11 remains highly suspect.

"In fact, the government has failed to produce significant wreckage from any of the four alleged airliners that fateful day. The familiar photo of the Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania shows no fuselage, engine or anything recognizable as a plane, just a smoking hole in the ground," said Reynolds. "Photographers reportedly were not allowed near the hole. Neither the FBI nor the National Transportation Safety Board have investigated or produced any report on the alleged airliner crashes."

For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.

Greg Szymanski  http://www.arcticbeacon.citymaker.com/articles/article/1518131/27302.htm

For Much More Information on the 911 Conspiracy (aka "the Reichstag Fire/Pearl Harbor/Tonkin Gulf Resolution/Remember the Maine/Remember the Alamo" methods) to propagandize the populations into war fever), check out some of the websites below:

http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up

http://www.letsroll911.org/
http://www.911review.org/
http://www.911inplanesite.com/
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc.htm

http//www.911_physics_dump.com

http//www.911CommissionWatch.com

http//www.911CrimeOfTheCentury.com

http//www.911truthalliance@.com

 

 

Could memo sink Bush?

Please fill up the attached letter with signatures and fax to Conyers.

 

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/drhousem.htm

June 13, 2005 Could memo sink Bush?    Hinchey, others demand answers on Downing Street Memo        By Dave Richardson    Times Herald-Record    drichardson@th-record.com        What if President Bush lied to Congress and the American people, used those lies to gain congressional approval for military action against Iraq and launched a war that killed 1,700 Americans and tens of thousands of others?    That might have been a hypothetical question a month ago; it might not be hypothetical anymore.    In fact, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, says the answer to the question could lead to the impeachment of President Bush.    The release of an explosive piece of paper called the Downing Street Memo has Hinchey, almost 90 members of Congress and people around the world in an uproar...

Fw: [Afterdowningstreet] More British Documents Leaked

 

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Subject: [Afterdowningstreet] More British Documents Leaked

Breaking News Later Today From RawStory.com Evidence / >From After Downing Street Dot Org Posted by downing on Jun 13, 2005 - 10:17 AM BREAKING NEWS Later today RawStory.com [1] will be posting an article that they have been researching for several days. Six new secret British documents have been leaked and made widely available on the internet, including via the links below. These were retyped from the originals to protect the source, but RawStory.com [2] has verified the authenticity and will be reporting on that research, on the significance of the documents, and on the timeline of the events illuminated by this information, known to the British media but new on this side of the pond. • "Iraq Options Paper," UK Overseas and Defense Secretariat, March 8, 2002 The greater investment of Western forces, the greater our control over Iraq's future, but the greater the cost and the longer we would need to stay. The only certain means to remove Saddam and his elite is to invade and impose a new government, but this could involve nation building over many years. Even a representative government could seek to acquire WMD and build-up its conventional forces, so long as Iran and Israel retain their WMD and conventional armouries and there was no acceptable solution to the Palestinian grievances. SIGNIFICANCE: UK government anticipated "nation building over many years," in contradiction to public case by Bush administration. British also believed Iraq might acquire WMD without Saddam Hussein in power. We have looked at three options for regime change... OPTION 3: A GROUND CAMPAIGN The aim would be to launch a full-scale ground offensive... A pro-Western regime would be installed... The optimal times to start action are early spring. SIGNIFICANCE: Timing of invasion already set in March 2002. Aim is not an Iraq which can democratically choose its policies, but a "pro-Western regime." Most Iraqis see the INC/INA as Western stooges. SIGNIFICANCE: The head of the INC (Iraqi National Congress) was Ahmed Chalabi; Chalabi is now acting Oil Minister of Iraq. The head of the INA (Iraqi National Accord) was Ayad Allawi; Allawi was Prime Minister of the Iraqi Interim government from June 1, 2004-April 7, 2005. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/ods020308.pdf [3] • "Iraq: Legal Background," UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, March 8, 2002 The US... maintain that the assessment of breach [of UN resolutions] is for individual member States. We are not aware of any other State which supports this view. SIGNIFICANCE: Bush administration's interpretation of international law, which eventually invoked for the invasion, was so bizarre it was not shared by any other nation on earth (including UK). http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/fcolegal020308.pdf [4] • Memo from David Manning (Foreign Policy Advisor to Blair) to Blair on Manning's Dinner with Condoleezza Rice, March 14, 2002 I said you would not budge in your support for regime change but you had to manage a press, a Parliament and a public opinion... Condi's enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed.... Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions:... what happens on the morning after? SIGNIFICANCE: Aim was always regime change. Bush had no plan for future of Iraq. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/manning020314.pdf [5] • Memo from Christopher Meyer (UK Ambassador to US) to David Manning on Meyer's lunch with Wolfowitz, March 18, 2002 "On Iraq I opened by sticking very closely to the script that you used with Condi Rice last week. We backed regime change, but the plan had to be clever and failure was not an option. It would be a tough sell for us domestically, and probably tougher elsewhere in Europe. The US could go it alone if it wanted to. But if it wanted to act with partners, there had to be a strategy for building support for military action against Saddam. I then went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UN SCRs and the critical importance of the MEPP as an integral part of the anti-Saddam strategy. If all this could be accomplished skillfully, we were fairly confident that a number of countries would come on board." SIGNIFICANCE: UN process was a sham for Blair's sake; aim was not disarmament but regime change, which had already been decided on. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/meyer020318.pdf [6] • Memo from Peter Ricketts (Political Director, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office) to Jack Straw (UK Foreign Secretary), March 22, 2002 For Iraq, "regime change" does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam. Much better, as you have suggested, to make the objective ending the threat to the international community from Iraqi WMD... SIGNIFICANCE: Aim was regime change, but that wouldn't sell; WMD issue was useful for PR reasons. US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and Al [Q]aida is so far frankly unconvincing. SIGNIFICANCE: Even UK government at the highest levels believed the Bush administration claims of an Iraq-Al Qaida links were false. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/ricketts020322.pdf [7] • Memo from Jack Straw to Blair, March 25, 2002 We have also to answer the big question—what will this action achieve?... [no US assessment] has satisfactorily answered how that regime change is to be secured, and how there can be any certainty that the replacement regime will be better. SIGNIFICANCE: UK government at its highest levels did not believe the US had any plan to be certain a new Iraqi government would be an improvement on Saddam and would not develop WMD. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/straw020325.pdf [8] This article is from After Downing Street Dot Org   http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=205 Links in this article   [1] http://www.rawstory.com   [2] http://www.rawstory.com/   [3] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/ods020308.pdf   [4] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/fcolegal020308.pdf   [5] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/manning020314.pdf   [6] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/meyer020318.pdf   [7] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/ricketts020322.pdf   [8] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/straw020325.pdf

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