Senator Feingold to "question Blair closely" about the Downing Street Memo

[rndmprsn]

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6371

During the session, Feingold called the war an "amazing mess. ... If you want to get depressed, you should read the appallingly flippant answers" that Bush administration officials gave during Senate hearings before the war.

The answers generally boiled down to the war would be a cakewalk, Feingold said.

And, he said, that two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration released a list of two dozen countries it said al-Qaida operated in, but Iraq was not listed.

One of the people at the listening session said he was troubled that the Bush administration seems bent on following the path of "preventive war." He referred to the so-called "Downing Street memo," minutes of a meeting of British officials about Iraq eight months before the war...

Feingold told his audience: "I can’t tell you the amount of comment I’ve heard on the Downing Street memo."

He said he soon would be at a breakfast meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Feingold said he would question Blair closely about the memo and prewar intelligence, which the Bush administration has admitted was wrong but which it maintains was not rigged to justify war.

[knowbody0]

1. hope he records it

[Jacobin]

2. What's to question?

I mean, really. What the Fuck is to question?

[DearAbby]

3. It is coming out...the whole thing is a mess Senator, lies usually are.

The little b* boy with his thumb in the dike, to stop the flow, But the moisture of this news is leaking everywhere...the dam is gonna burst!

:popcorn:

[xray s]

4. If its not under oath, in public, is meaningless

What does he expect Blair to say over breakfast??? Pass the marmalade, mate?