Blair faces US probe over secret Iraq invasion plan

[SHRED]

Blair faces US probe over secret Iraq invasion plan
Tony Allen-Mills and Tom Pattinson
SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.

Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.

A group of 89 Democrats from the House of Representatives has written to Bush to ask whether the memo is accurate.

It recounts a discussion between Tony Blair and his military and intelligence advisers about the Bush administration’s views in July 2002, three months before Congress authorised the White House to go to war with Iraq.

>>>>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622378,00.html

[Maple]

1. It doesn't pay to be a poodle

:rofl:

[Cha]

2. Maybe timmy will ask Dean

about it tomorrow or Dean will bring it up somehow!

[babsbunny]

3. Has anyone emailed Dean

about this? If so, I guess there is nothing more to see here....move along!

[Pirate Smile]

4. more

The Democrat letter, drafted by Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, said that the memo raised “troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war as well as the integrity of your own administration”.

US administration officials tried to shrug off the letter last week. Scott McClellan, Bush’s spokesman, said the White House saw “no need” to respond to an affair that one newspaper dubbed “memogate”. Yet Democratic opponents of the war appear determined not to let the matter drop. “They (the Republicans) are trying desperately to wait it out and hope that nobody will bring this up,” Conyers said. “But this thing will not be snuffed out. ”

The memo was written by Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Blair. It described a meeting on July 23, 2002 where Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6 who had recently returned from meeting CIA officials in Washington, was quoted as saying that Bush wanted “to remove Saddam (Hussein) through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD (weapons of mass destruction)”.

[rodeodance]

5. Blaire has managed to weasle out of lots of probes-but at least

they call him to accountabiliy--

[evermind]

6. The irony is...

... that Conyers says they are considering sending a team over in order to garner more coverage in the US press:

<quote>

By sending investigators to London, Conyers hopes to stir the US media into re-examining a story largely ignored in America since Bush’s re-election victory in November.

“I deplore the fact that our media have been so reticent on the question of whether there was a secret planning of a war for which neither the Congress nor the American people had given permission,” Conyers said.

“We have The Sunday Times to thank for this very important activity. It reminds me of Watergate, which started off as a tiny little incident reported in The Washington Post. I think that the interest of many citizens is picking up.”

Another Democrat who signed the letter said that the affair could have repercussions on mid-term elections next year. “People are beginning to understand that those crying in the wilderness (opposing the war in Iraq) were not without rationale,” said Congressman Danny Davis of Illinois

[meganmonkey]

7. So, is he getting scapegoated? Or can this implicate bush** successfully?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[oasis]

8. Hans Blix was used by Bush and Blair in an elaborate dog and pony show.

Meanwhile, shitheads like Dennis Miller and Tom Freidman got tons of media facetime to promote the invasion.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

[chlamor]

10. Blair Faces US Probe Over Secret Iraq Invasion Plan

The Sunday Times - Britain

May 22, 2005

Blair faces US probe over secret Iraq invasion plan
Tony Allen-Mills and Tom Pattinson
SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.

Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.

A group of 89 Democrats from the House of Representatives has written to Bush to ask whether the memo is accurate.

<snip>

By sending investigators to London, Conyers hopes to stir the US media into re-examining a story largely ignored in America since Bush’s re-election victory in November. “I deplore the fact that our media have been so reticent on the question of whether there was a secret planning of a war for which neither the Congress nor the American people had given permission,” Conyers said.

“We have The Sunday Times to thank for this very important activity. It reminds me of Watergate, which started off as a tiny little incident reported in The Washington Post. I think that the interest of many citizens is picking up.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622378,00.html

[whistle]

11. They should team up with George Galloway MP

[LeahD]

12. Get on that plane, Congressmen.....

if that's what it will take to get more media coverage. Thanks to Conyers for staying with this one.

[Zorra]

13. Zappa prophecy on the Bush-Blair relationship.

Give me
Your dirty love
Just like your mama
Make her fuzzy poodle do
(Oh, Frenchie . . . )

Give me
Your dirty love
The way your mama
Make that nasty poodle chew

THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Not a speck of cereal!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Nothing but the best for my dog!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Come on!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Little paws sticking up!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Little curly hairs!)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Little curly hairs!)

(Dirty Love lyrics by Frank Zappa)