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deminks

(11,014 posts) Wed Jul 6, 2016, 09:11 PM Jul 2016

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Original Downing Street Memo now declassified [View all]

as part of Chilcot

http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/210955/2002-07-23-minute-rycroft-to-manning-iraq-prime-mi-nisters-meeting-23-july.pdf

Save this, and teach your children and grandchildren. I plan to.

Bushco and the Poodle cooked the intelligence. It was cooked to match the Big Lie.

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Original Downing Street Memo now declassified [View all] deminks Jul 2016 OP

Downing St. Memo. Bookmarking underpants Jul 2016 #1

confirmation..... spanone Jul 2016 #2

"The case was thin" so they fattened it up with lies. suffragette Jul 2016 #11

5000 dead military professionals later... Rex Jul 2016 #12

Exactly so. And we shouted it in the streets and marched. But they were never suffragette Jul 2016 #19

This also makes the mainstream media culpable. They purposely pushed for war. Rex Jul 2016 #20

Yes, indeed. Judith Miller is certainly the most notorious, being at the center of WMD and suffragette Jul 2016 #21

It says Iraq had less WMD capability than Libya and was not threatening its neighbors. KeepItReal Jul 2016 #3

Doesn't it say that they set out to cook the whole thing up? Cracklin Charlie Jul 2016 #8

It does, many of us thought it would and were ridiculed for bringing it up. Rex Jul 2016 #9

Boom! Cracklin Charlie Jul 2016 #14

Some of my relatives were praying for a bloodbath. Rex Jul 2016 #16

I so remember this site. David Swanson babylonsister Jul 2016 #4

K&R PatSeg Jul 2016 #5

Wow. Rex Jul 2016 #6

bmking. Thanks! lonestarnot Jul 2016 #7

Downing Street Memo. I'm getting my Blair/Bush/Cheney rage on again. oasis Jul 2016 #10

There are few things that I have ever been upset about... Cracklin Charlie Jul 2016 #17

DU had a quote straight out of the memo at the time. "facts being fixed around the policy." lonestarnot Jul 2016 #13

I'm sick of being right. I want some people in The Hague NightWatcher Jul 2016 #15

I am never right, so I don't need to be sick from that. I am always left and very fucking proud of lonestarnot Jul 2016 #18

Thank you, deminks! Octafish Jul 2016 #22

K&R&bookmark JEB Jul 2016 #23

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